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Author looks at modern fatherhood.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
Michael Murphy's father worked hard, surrendering a young man's dreams in order to provide for a wife and five children.
``He was a lower-middle-class guy, the son of Irish immigrants,'' Murphy explains. ``He was primarily focused on issues of survival and support. What we _ a lot of us baby boomers _ saw was fathers sacrificing their dreams to the support of the family.
``He didn't spend much time with us, he wasn't affectionate, and I was afraid of him. Fathers in that day and age tended to be distant and weren't trained to be affectionate.''
Murphy, a 44-year-old psychologist for the Massachusetts Department of Corrections and father of three sons, has tried to do better. To say the things he never heard from his father. To listen. To share in parenting.
He has ...
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- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) February 23, 1997 700+ words
...same game. Calvin Murphy Jr., brought a...than the one his father left behind 27 years...Many say the younger Murphy has a warmer personality...more humble than his father. One trait passed...warranted much. Murphy needed 13 games to...this season. His father established an NBA...
- `FATHER MURPHY' NAMED FEDERAL WAY SCHOOLS CHIEF UNANIMOUS PICK FOR...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Harrell, Debera Carlton January 13, 2000 700+ words
...highly regarded superintendent. Murphy, 53, has big shoes to fill in Federal...Federal Way's decision to choose Murphy from among 43 applicants comes at...respect for the man they call ``Father Murphy'' for his wise guidance. It is...
- Murphy dedicates shock win to father; Snooker.(Sport)
- Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) May 3, 2005 700+ words
SHOCK winner Shaun Murphy dedicated his Embassy...title success to his father Tony and claimed...in this position." Murphy, a 150-1 outsider...the king of snooker. Murphy said: "My father sacrificed a great deal...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 23, 2003 700+ words
...were head of the household after Murphy and co-stars turned audiences...family comedy DADDY DAY CARE, two fathers (Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin) join the ranks...Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on...
- Father Peter Murphy. Outback Priests: 25 Stories from the Toowoomba...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society McMahon, Frederick January 1, 2004 700+ words
FATHER PETER MURPHY. Outback Priests: 25 Stories from...priests, pioneering and otherwise, Father Peter Murphy gives us a fine pen-picture of twenty...characters of these twenty-five, Father Murphy also reveals qualities of the people...
- The Philadelphia Inquirer Sideshow column: DNA points father finger at Eddie...
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) June 23, 2007 700+ words
...Brown, was fathered by Eddie Murphy has been proved. A super...that the results of a DNA test Murphy took on June 11 just came in...Night Live cat was the cat. Murphy, who briefly dated Brown last year, has long denied he's the father. His rep has declined to comment...
- This one's for Dad!; Welsh folk singer Julie Murphy was devastated by the...
- Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) August 10, 2002 700+ words
...painful and sudden death of her father for Welsh folk singer Julie Murphy to produce the most beautiful work of her career. When her father, Edward, was killed in a road...conscious that I wanted to mark my father's life and his passing...
