1.   And what supports do some families need in carrying out their parental roles?

2.   Because we fill that parental role for our pets during their entire lifetimes, our cats and dogs are often lifelong and joyful juveniles.

3.   Charter school legislation was devised to provide a more direct parental role.

4.   Charles Jones of the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, said presidents alone perform a kind of parental role for the nation in times of crisis.

5.   Family activities continue to diminish and the parental role should change, said Professor Reed Larson of the University of Illinois department of human and community development.

6.   Green finds himself in a parental role after he becomes involved with a man who has adopted a child.

7.   In the absence of parents putting on the behavioral brakes, schools are increasingly assuming the traditional parental role.

8.   Is it really his nature to play this parental supervisory role, even if this is the only role left to him?

9.   It has been closely watched because family structures are changing, and grandparents and other adults are taking on parental roles.

10.   Nash embraces the parental role.