"That woman cannot gain entrance to a decent family," his mother said, according to his account.

She so wanted her only daughter to have a proper mar- riage and a decent family.

Neighbors - some of whom witnessed the stabbing - called it a tragedy in a decent family.

Such disgraceful rioting he had never seen nor heard before in a decent private family.

I knew that she was from a decent family, and I wanted to know more about her past.

Many feel squeezed emotionally as well as they struggle to raise decent families.

We were a very decent, well-off family, and he's made it to be quite another story.

There are a lot of really decent and nice families who stay here because they don't have a home.

- seventeenth-century Old Earth, every decent family had to have a copy in the household.

It's a decent family; I think his father's a cobbler.