father and child

Discusses the problem of fatherless families in contemporary society, explains what has caused the problem, and tries to come up with some solutions.

Thumper is looking forward to spending the day with his father, but when he gets distracted while searching for greens, Thumper learns that he can always rely on Papa's help.

Western New York, 1978: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents??? destructive dance of loving, hating, and drinking. Terrance Thurber spends this year teaching his children about the natural world: they listen to the heartbeat of trees, track animal footprints, sleep under the star-filled sky. Despite these lessons, he doesn???t show them how to survive without him. And when these seasons of trying and failing to quit booze and be a better man are over, Terrance is gone. Alone with their artist mother, Catrin, the Thurber children are left to grapple with the anger they feel for the one parent who deserted them and a growing resentment for the one who didn???t. As Catrin withdraws into her own world, Jamie throws herself into painting while her brothers smash out their rage in brutal, no-holds-barred football games with neighborhood kids. Once they can leave???Jamie for college, Lewis for the navy, and Connor for work???they don???t look back. But Terrance does. Crossing the country, sobering up, and starting over has left him with razor-sharp regret. Terrance doesn???t know that Jamie, now an academic, inhabits an ever-shrinking circle of loneliness; that Lewis, a merchant marine, fears life on dry land; that Connor struggles to connect with the son he sees teetering on an all-too-familiar edge. He only knows that he has one last try to build a bridge, through the years, to his family.

When her alcoholic father cannot look after her properly, eleven-year-old Jules spends her time in the warmth of the local shopping center but when a stranger reports the suspected neglect Jules is worried she will end up in foster care.

Federico, the son of a mosquito doctor, does not want to follow in the footsteps of his father who administers shots as a general cure-all, and he gets a chance to practice his own style of medicine when a frantic firefly whose light has gone dim shows up while the doctor is out.

Motivated by a challenging situation and his supportive father, Little Loon finally learns to dive.

Little Critter, Little Sister and their dad spend the day at the beach.

Lurene is a Dallas housewife who is determined to travel across the country to attend John F. Kennedy's funeral. Aboard the eastbound bus, she meets a mysterious African American man who is travelling with a young girl. Despite several racial issues and misunderstandings, the trio develop a friendship.

Dylan is sixteen when she first meets her father, who is looking for a donor match for his sick toddler.

A young boy named Mustafa ventures out of his father's carpet shop into the marketplace--under a carpet that makes him look like a rooster--where he learns about the languages of the tourists and brings his father new customers in the process.