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“If I was in a situation where I was fathering a child who was near a potential lifestyle like mine, I would be suggesting and making recommendations different to ones I received.”

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2024

But he had married without telling her, grown heavy, gone into business and was fathering a family.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Might tell the kids I got more," said Scattergood, and watched the boy trot down the street, entranced by the horrid sound he was fathering.

From Scattergood Baines by Kelland, Clarence Budington

It would be a rare case in which a clerk who valued his situation would refuse to take a few shares in an enterprise which the head of the firm was fathering.

From True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office by Train, Arthur Cheney