Apostolic Fathers

There are parks filled with men pushing strollers and coffee shops where fathers meet their friends, babes in arms.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In Rwanda, as we watched the young fathers hold their babies, we saw a contented look in their eyes.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Girls raised in households with more equitable fathers show lower rates of unwanted sex.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The experience of the Jesuit fathers at Port Royal is related at length, from their own point of view.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
It is not likely that any of the earlier fathers, any more than the later, would have invented so dangerous a story.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
She wondered if there were a kind of dreadful dog which made a specialty of eating fathers.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
Besides, I've read of such things in the Princess Novelettes; only there it's most generally lovers, not 'usbins, nor yet fathers.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
The old Chippewa has never deviated from the faith of his fathers, as he still adheres to all their rites and ceremonies.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.

British Dictionary definitions for Apostolic Fathers

Apostolic Fathers

pl n

the Fathers of the early Church who immediately followed the Apostles

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