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Some seventy-plus countries currently offer some paternity leave or parental leave days reserved for the father.

Certainly paid paternity leave is part of it (and in the U.S., we need paid maternity and paternity leave).

She refused to take a paternity test, and was eventually convicted of extortion and sentenced to 22 months in prison.

This recognized family rights when paternity is established, whether a child was born in or out of wedlock.

In 2010, the ‘Good Wife’ star received some shocking news about his paternity.

Moreover, women were proud of the paternity of their children begotten in their relationship to the friars.

He bore himself, this husband of Jane's, with an air of triumphant paternity, as if (Tanqueray reflected) he had had a hand in it.

In short, in this instance, your paternity renders you all the more proud from the fact that it is incontestable, my dear sir!

Even the planets and their moons do not represent the Sun's complete paternity.

Scandal accused her of a prodigality of favours which must have rendered the paternity of Don John very dubious.

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On this page you'll find 79 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to paternity, such as: ancestry, birth, descent, lineage, beginnings, and blood.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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