The kids developed a unique hybrid mother-father dialect they used to talk to each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: NATIVE SPEAKER.] Reference

However, the “valorizing mother-father families” argument naturally raises some questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [SSM Debates on MarriageDebate.com] Reference

At least polygamy, for all its ugly defects, is an attempt to secure stable mother-father families for children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Apparently, I revealed the underlying mother-father child raising symmetry which they had completely failed to see in our symmetry-broken society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spontaneous Social Symmetry Breaking] Reference

The unity of the creator couple, Xpiyakok and Xmucane, mother-father, is an equality of the sexes whose significance, not only in terms of progeny, but also as mentors, is revealed in the story of Maya creation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero Cycle in Maya Myth & Culture] Reference

Don Mateo recited a benediction, invoking the names Dark Jaguar and Macaw House, the first mother-father pair of daykeepers, and of White Sparkstriker, who had brought the knowledge to our branch of the World Tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masked] Reference

In so doing, they countered the traditional view that men should bring home at least half the family income and women should be the primary child rearers -- and created a new model in which the traditional mother-father roles are reversed.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's No Right Way To Be A Mom] Reference

Suleman is trying to frame her decision as an "unconventional" lifestyle choice, daring to infer that most parents, the so-called stable kind consisting of a traditional mother-father dyad, aren't physically and emotionally there for their children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beth Kohl: Love Can't Buy You Money] Reference

And that that can be very tough, particularly if he didn't tell anybody right after it happened or shortly thereafter and it was prompted by some other consideration, given the fact that emotionally he is a cancer victim in the middle of a mother-father divorce, all of which raises questions about his credibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2003] Reference

The government, Cooper said, has an interest in steering child-rearing into mother-father unions.    From Wordnik.com.  [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference

The Family Policy Council advocates public policy that continues the tradition of married mother-father adoption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right Wing Watch] Reference

Our review of research closest to this design suggests that strengths typically associated with mother-father families appear at least to the same degree in families with two women parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Thus, it is entirely consistent from a moral, justice and faith perspective to both oppose racial injustice and support the primacy in law and culture of the natural, mother-father family and God-ordained marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans For Truth] Reference

But this does not alter the fact that within him lives the mother-quick and the father-quick, and that though in his wholeness he is rapt away beyond the old mother-father connections, they are still there within him, consummated but not consumed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantasia of the Unconscious] Reference

"That the judge should find marriage -- civilization's long-standing public policy -- irrational and discriminatory does a great injustice to the institution itself and ultimately will further encourage the disintegration of mother-father families," said Edward E. Dolejsi, the conference's executive director.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNS latest top stories] Reference

I agree that the “marriage valorizes mother-father families and this serves crucial social goals” - which is essentially the argument Elizabeth was making - is a stronger argument than the ridiculous “marriage is about reproduction, so non-reproductive couples can’t marry, unless they’re heterosexual in which case forget the whole thing” argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [SSM Debates on MarriageDebate.com] Reference

The second inscription, which is bilingual, has the expressions "the mother-father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

I never heard, especially in the neighborhood, of someone having a mother-father tandem as far as a criminal spree, "neighbor Tony Townes said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

You see, mothers typically don't experience postpartum depression unless a.) the father is not around b.) the mother is lacking a stable social network c.) the baby is unhealthy d.) the mother-father relationship is not a good one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference

Enlil, "" the mother-father Ninlil "(Sumerian), rendered in Semitic" the father-mother Enlil, "" the father-mother Ninlil. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference