Noun

parents

  1. Plural form of parent.; one's father and mother.

Synonyms

Verb

parents

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of parent.

Anagrams

French

Noun

parents m. pl.

  1. Plural form of parent.

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Wed Jul 28 17:50:12 2010

A parent (from Latin: parēns = parent) is a caretaker of the offspring in their own species. In humans, a parent is the mother or the father figure of a child (NOTE: "child" refers to offspring, not necessarily age). 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.

Mother

Main article: Mother

Father

Main article: Father

Grandmother

Main article: Grandmother

Grandfather

Main article: Grandfather

Like mothers, fathers may be categorised according to their biological, social or legal relationship with the child. Historically, the biological relationship paternity has been determinative of fatherhood. However, proof of paternity has been intrinsically problematic and so social rules often determined who would be regarded as a father e.g. the husband of the mother.

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Tue Jul 27 02:34:31 2010

Parents!!!!!?
Q. I work with a lady who also works at a HOSS's in central PA. She told me that even though her foster parents are her legal parents she was told they could not use her employee family discount since they were not blood related. Does this not seem really wrong to anyone else??? That is like saying your adoptive parents arent your parents. They were offered this discount to start off with but in the last month or so they were told it with no notification whether verbal or written was made saying they changed the policy.
Asked by colebomb23 - Mon Dec 3 02:10:18 2007 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments

A. All state laws recognize adoptive families the same as they recognize biological families. I am not sure if foster family=adoptive family, but it would be really easy to check your state's laws on www.findlaw.com. Or you could write to your legislator.
Answered by Yellow B - Mon Dec 3 02:16:21 2007

Casey Anthony planning to kill her parents?Why all the stories her parents were going to give her their house?
Q. Was Casey Anthony planning on killing her parents? She told her friend Amy that her parents were getting divorced, moving into a condo and signing their home over to Casey? Amy was also asked by Casey to move in with Casey once her parents moved out (Amy packed her stuff up and everything) And was Casey really running out of Gasoline or was she going to torch her parents, and the car with Caylee at the same time? Anybody want to play Clue with me ... ?
Asked by Ben - Thu Mar 5 18:30:13 2009 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I don't care,I just hope she either goes to jail or dies.
Answered by Helen of Troy is engaged! - Thu Mar 5 18:35:09 2009

How do parents learn how to structure home tuition?
Q. How do parents who don't have a clue about home education /how it's structured learn how to organise this? can a parent who isn't a teacher/isn't up to date with all the subjects still teach the child?
Asked by Clemence J - Mon Nov 13 07:53:02 2006 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Please Please Please get proper medical help. You are abusing other useres of Yahoo Answers with your repeat postings. You have been given lots of very good advice and sympathy from many many users. You are ignoring everyone and posting the same topic questions over and over again. You never choose best answer or give feedback. I am from this point on reporting all your questions as repeat postings. I hope others will join me and you will seek help from the proper qualified channels. Anybody who thinks I am being out of order should check this users profile of asked questions and read them to see all the conflicting information before forming an opinion.
Answered by angie - Mon Nov 13 09:39:32 2006

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More than a third of . parents. who have been tested for genetic breast cancer risk say they'd support similar testing for their children.

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Parenting is the process of raising and educating a child from birth until adulthood.

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  • Parenting is among the most personal choices anyone ever makes. At the same time, no other individual decision has as significant a societal impact. Finding a careful balance between personal autonomy and the public welfare is often a considerable challenge.
  • Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children's minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage through their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can't) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humourously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake up in the morning, the naughtiness and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.
  • Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
    • Napoleon Bonaparte, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 441.