To them the government was like a distant and unyielding father.

It's as if only in dying can Arthur make up for the distant father he was when his children were young.

A son attempts to find common ground with his distant father through spiritualism.

This individual probably suffered a difficult childhood, with a cold, controlling mother and a distant or absent father.

Again, the main character is a young man growing up in a thinly described German city, with an emotionally distant father.

"Many of them have had absent or distant fathers."

Timothy turns out to be not only an emotionally distant father - stuck in his books - but also a cheating husband.

Homosexual men are the environmental product of a strong, overbearing mother and a weak, distant father.

Married to Hannah and a distant father to their three children.

He was, moreover, a distant father to his seven children.