To some cultures, forceful parenting may be seen as abuse, but in other societies such as these, the use of force is looked at as a reflection of parental devotion.

This was no ordinary parental devotion.

Even in the name of parental devotion, delivering all that eight-cylinder temptation to a new driver seems a bit like making baby's first shoes a pair of Jimmy Choo stilettos.

You don't find a lot of parental devotion in the letters to Penthouse publications.

This subtle pressure to conform to traditional gendered roles stems in part from a sociological conception of children as fragile, helpless and needing complete parental devotion.

They agree on the undesirability of museum umbrellas and pink houses, but not on the significance of experiments about mother and father rats' relative parental devotion.

Any Parent Can Tell You" (Dec. 21): I couldn't agree more with the author's observations about the profound nature of parental devotion - human, squirrel or otherwise.

Why this display of parental devotion now, when nobody was here to witness it?

By the end of that first season, I was ready to put my odometer up against anyone's as a measure of parental devotion.

Now, however, in her seventeenth year, Jessica had developed a certain amount of reserve and independence which was not inviting to the richest form of parental devotion.