Stanley, who has reared his son since he split with Bryan's mother when Bryan was 2, taught him that kind of discipline, too.

I came to know it well, over the years that I was rearing your son.

From 1974 on, after Mr. Hoffman fled trial on drug charges, his wife reared their son on her own, leading a less prominent life.

This fall, he became a father, and he is rearing his son with the mother, who is from Akron.

She is the strong woman who reared her son alone in the Dixon Circle housing projects in south Dallas.

The Melendezes said they never minded putting in long hours at Swingline because it always meant more money for rearing their son.

Three years ago, I left what many would consider a "fun, glamorous" job as a public-interest lawyer to work full time at rearing my son.

His father was a medical doctor and an appreciator of art, who reared his son to embrace the arts.

"The woman next door has reared her son by screaming and cursing," one person wrote.

So I am grateful to him, and he has never had the shadow of cause to think he rears another man's son.