Their relations still are depended on the basis of paternal authority and filial dependence.

Historically, a husband was legally allowed to beat his wife or children to show his role as a paternal authority until 1973.

Their interactions with the ruler are based on paternal authority and filial dependence.

The expectation of paternal authority - freely, if grudgingly, given - goes with the family territory.

Web's offer was also putting Swift right at Burrich's side, under his paternal authority.

First, his wives entered into their marriages of their own accord, initiative and free will, rather than being designated by a paternal authority.

Most obviously, we have more trouble assuming the mantle of all-knowing, paternal medical authority.

As his personal note, Cocea rebelled against paternal and institutional authority.

His manner had regained all its suavity, and he spoke with a soothing assumption of paternal authority.

Thus, in 18th- and 19th-century novels, family crises are acted out on the solid ground of respect for paternal authority.