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Stevenukd Posted 19 years ago
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INVOLVED IN HIS LIFE
0 Dear Teachers, 02 br
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00 1. My son's Dad is not involved in his life at all, even though my son has attempted to reach out to his Dad. 02 br
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00 - "is not involved in his life at all" here means "isn't interested in what happens in his life at all", right? 02 br
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00 2. My parents used to say that if I missed more than a day in a week of school, then I couldn't go out the following weekend. And there was no negotiating my way out of it either. 02 br
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00 - What does "there was no negotiating my way out of it either" mean here? 02 br
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00 Thanks very much to Teachers, 02 br
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00 Stevenukd. 0-
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00 1. My son's Dad is not involved in his life at all, even though my son has attempted to reach out to his Dad. 02 br
02 br
00 - "is not involved in his life at all" here means "isn't interested in what happens in his life at all", right? 02 br
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00 2. My parents used to say that if I missed more than a day in a week of school, then I couldn't go out the following weekend. And there was no negotiating my way out of it either. 02 br
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00 - What does "there was no negotiating my way out of it either" mean here? 02 br
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00 Thanks very much to Teachers, 02 br
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00 Stevenukd. 0-
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0 1. "is not 01 b 00 involved 02 b 00 in his life at all"="is not 01 b 00 implicated 02 b 00 in his life at all," which to me is a little bit different from "isn't 01 b 00 interested 02 b 00 in what happens in his life at all" 02 br 02 br 00 2. Any amount of talk (negotiating) with his parents, in order to get out of his obligation, didn't help at all.
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- "is not 01 b 00 involved 02 b 00 in his life at all"="is not 01 b 00 implicated 02 b 00 in his life at all," which to me is a little bit different from "isn't 01 b 00 interested 02 b 00 in what happens in his life at all" 02 br 02 br 00 2.
- Any amount of talk (negotiating) with his parents, in order to get out of his obligation, didn't help at all.
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0 1. "is not 01 b 00 involved 02 b 00 in his life at all"="is not 01 b 00 implicated 02 b 00 in his life at all," which to me is a little bit different from "isn't 01 b 00 interested 02 b 00 in what happens in his life at all" 02 br
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00 2. Any amount of talk (negotiating) with his parents, in order to get out of his obliga
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00 2. Any amount of talk (negotiating) with his parents, in order to get out of his obliga
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0 Steven, with #1, I would expect that the mother is divorced or otherwise no longer a couple with the boy's father. So the father is not involved in = is not a part of the son's life. He is not interested in his son, as you say. (Hopefully, he does pay child support.) 02 br
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00 It is also possible that in fact they are an intact family and the father is just "distant" in t
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00 It is also possible that in fact they are an intact family and the father is just "distant" in t
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