upbringing

Converse of object

• enjoy: There he enjoyed a country upbringing and his natural curiosity displayed itself at an early age.
• promote: The Child Care Service is committed to promoting the upbringing of children by their own families.
• have: Does having a lower class upbringing legally ban you from croquet.
• give: Clearly, it is not possible to know how well the boys would have developed given an upbringing like this from birth.
• deprive: Many peoples lives are marred by a deprived upbringing.

Adjective modifier

• children's: Most fathers wish to ensure that their children's upbringing is adequately provided for.
• Catholic: Here Patrick spent 7 years of childhood, with a strong Catholic upbringing.
• sheltered: Having a sheltered upbringing I saw little of the effects of gambling in my early years.
• privileged: Given Fela's privileged upbringing he might be called a class traitor.
• strict: At 19 he left his strict religious upbringing behind.
• religious: However we did have a good religious upbringing combined with good manners.

Noun used with modifier

• childhood: For the past years I've been helping people to deal with the negative and continuing influence of their childhood upbringing.
• family: Your character or family upbringing may make you worry easily.
• class: Does having a lower class upbringing legally ban you from croquet.
• school: Perhaps it's something to do with my public school upbringing, a public school at which I never really felt at home.
• Calvinist: Watt had a rather similar Calvinist upbringing leavened with attendance at the grammar school in Greenock.
• middle-class: It shows how thoroughly inventive you need to be and also goes back in time to an interesting middle-class upbringing in 1950's London.

Possessives

• child: Court orders dealing with children's upbringing: the state's role.

Preposition: in

• family: We believe that every child has the right to a secure upbringing in a loving family.

Preposition: of

• child: They did not want to take part in the upbringing of the child.