A father is defined as a male parent of any type of offspring. The adjective "paternal" refers to father, parallel to "maternal" for mother. The verb "to father" means to procreate or to sire a child from which also derives the gerund "fathering".

Contents

• 1 Father
• 2 Authority figure
• 3 Determination of parenthood
• 4 Categories
  • 4.1 Non-biological (social / legal relationship between father and child)
  • 4.2 Fatherhood defined by contact level with child
• 5 Non-human fatherhood
• 6 See also
• 7 References
• 8 Bibliography

Noun

father (plural fathers)

1. A male who sires (and often raises) a child.

   My father was a strong influence on me.

2. A term of address for an elderly man.

   Come, father; you can sit here.

3. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.

   My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.

   The child is father to the man.

4. The founder of a discipline or science.

   Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.

Synonyms

• (parent): See also Wikisaurus:father

Quotes on fathers, male parents.

• "Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" ~ Lydia Maria Child
• "By profession, I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
• "The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty as the son who neglects them." ~ Confucius
• "Happy is the father whose child finds his attempts to amuse it, amusing." ~ Robert Lynd
• "I could not point to any need in childhood as strong as that for a father's protection." ~ Sigmund Freud
• "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." ~ Anne Sexton
• "Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family." ~ Bil Keane
• "My father used to shirk his parental responsibilities by saying that life was an illusion; karma was also a convenient excuse for foul-ups. In my mind echos: 'Sorry I sold your baseball cards, Monkey, but it's your karma, and life is just an illusion anyway, boy.'" ~ Monkey, Inside Monkey Zetterland
• "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." ~ Theodore Hesburgh
• "A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." ~ Anonymous
• "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." ~ George Herbert
• "A good father lives so he is a credit to his children." ~ Arnold Glasow
• "What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity." ~ Jean Paul
• "Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life." ~ Oscar Wilde
• "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." ~ Clarence Budington Kelland
• "Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" ~ Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
• "A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again." ~ Enid Bagnold
• "Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." ~ Ruth E. Renkel
• "Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad." ~ Author Unknown
• "There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus." ~ Author Unknown
• "Luke, I am your father." - Darth Vader
• "Hell is full of dads." - George Carlin

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