One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father. Etymology: From parent, parent, from parentem, accusative of parens, present participle of parere. The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node. Etymology: [L. A parent is a caretaker of the offspring in their own species. In humans, a parent is of a child. Children can have one or more parents, but they must have two biological parents. Biological parents consist of the male who sired the child and the female who gave birth to the child.
In all human societies, the biological mother and father are both responsible for raising their young. However, some parents may not be biologically related to their children. An adoptive parent is one who nurtures and raises the offspring of the biological parents but is not actually biologically related to the child.
Children without adoptive parents can be raised by their grandparents or other family members. A parent can also be elaborated as an ancestor removed one generation. If you have a very overprotective parent , which would be myself, your children don't get to lead a normal life -- get on a bus, go on a field trip, stay the night with a friend.
And that's been very difficult, it's been a life of hard work, trying to be normal. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd :. We will actively communicate with the authority and provide the required supporting materials to comply with the latest requirements, since Alibaba Group, the parent company of Alibaba. Initially companies went down the path of almost trying to convey to the parent s that you're a bad parent if you let your kid play on a digital device. Los Angeles-based lawyer Julian Chan :.
Spears conservatorship seems to have an odd quirk, while established to protect her from herself, it appears from news reports that she actively parent s her children. Gerber Life makes no claims, representations, or warranties as to the accuracy, completeness, or appropriateness of this general interest information for your particular circumstances.
If you need legal, financial, health or other services, you should contact a duly licensed professional. Subscribe via web Or Enter your email address:. Sign up for our Blog Feed Enter your email address:. An example of parent used as an adjective is in the phrase "parent company," which means a company that is in charge of other companies.
An example of a parent is a plant that sprouts many other plants. My twin sister says she loves our parents, but honestly, I dislike them. What causes a parent to love one child more than another? And the one to do it is the parent or the special teacher, not the school.
Several are only known in cultivation, and we have but little knowledge of the wild parent forms from which they have descended. A Ragged School was opened on the Castle Hill, which has been the parent of many similar institutions elsewhere, though Guthrie's relation to the movement is best described as that of an apostle rather than a founder.
All rights reserved. Filters 0. Words form: parented parenting parents. Given the huge life-overlaps in modern family relationships, how do children influence parents, siblings each other and so on? You can say we are not used to it because our parents never sunbathed.
The risk factor is high, teachers and even parents sometimes jealously interfere, orchestras can take umbrage at being asked to work with prodigies. None of the children wanted to go and live with their birth parents, but simply to keep contact.
In other words the personalities and character of the two sets of parents are important in maintaining a constructive relationship. The goal was to uncover the ideologies that parents perceive to guide present speaking practices with their children.
Are we to teach parents how to use nonimmediate language to prepare children better for school? See all examples of parent. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Collocations with parent. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. From the Hansard archive. Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3. From Wikipedia. See all collocations with parent. Translations of parent in Chinese Traditional.
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