Or perhaps girls just give their parents more grief than boys, as one anonymous father announced on my voice mail.

"One thing we can do," announced the father, "go to the bottom, try to get under the net."

"Anyone who knows anything about navigation, come to me now," my father announced.

His father announces that the entire family is moving to the farm.

Her father sold the house for cash and announced he was driving them to Arizona.

When her father announced that he was going up to Town, she said she would come with him.

His father had announced it one morning over breakfast.

The father announces that the man will be staying with the family for a while.

"He makes the best sauerkraut in Germany," his father announced.

One father, furious at the universe, announced that he was going to turn in his family immediately.