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Parentism and Parent Definitions

Parentism

Discrimination against parents.

Parent

A female person whose egg unites with a sperm or a male person whose sperm unites with an egg, resulting in the conception of a child or the birth of a child.

Parentism

Resentment felt by parents towards people who have chosen not to have children.

Parent

A female person who is pregnant with or gives birth to a child except when someone else has legal rights to the child.

Parent

A person who adopts a child.
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Parent

A person who raises a child.

Parent

An ancestor; a progenitor.

Parent

An organism that produces or generates offspring.

Parent

A guardian; a protector.

Parent

A parent company.
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Parent

A source or cause; an origin
Despair is the parent of rebellion.

Parent

To act as a parent to; raise and nurture
"A genitor who does not parent the child is not its parent" (Ashley Montagu).

Parent

To cause to come into existence; originate.

Parent

To act as a parent.

Parent

One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.

Parent

A surrogate parent

Parent

A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material

Parent

A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.

Parent

(obsolete) A relative.

Parent

The source or origin of something.

Parent

(biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.

Parent

(attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.

Parent

A parent company.

Parent

(computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.

Parent

(physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.

Parent

To act as parent, to raise or rear.

Parent

One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord.

Parent

That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.
Regular industry is the parent of sobriety.

Parent

A father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian

Parent

Bring up;
Raise a family
Bring up children

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