His father had always acted as if the boy were an embarrassment.

My father would act the same way, he thought.

I can only tell you that my father was acting very strangely the past few weeks.

He understood that your father would act outside the authorities, use his sons to find the vault.

She just can't figure out why her "father" is acting so differently.

The American father must act to formally acknowledge paternity before the child is 18.

If a father did not act within a certain period, he would have no more claim to the child.

"And sometimes when the children try to gorge themselves on too many sweets, the father must act."

The way his father was acting, though, that didn't seem likely.