fathering是什么意思？

Your father is your male parent. You can also call someone your father if he brings you up as if he was this man.

When a man fathers a child, he makes a woman pregnant and their child is born.

The man who invented or started something is sometimes referred to as the father of that thing.

In some Christian churches, priests are addressed or referred to as Father .

Christians often refer to God as our Father or address him as Father .