Parent (disambiguation)

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Parent may refer to:

• Parenting, comprising all the tasks involved in raising a child to an independent adult. Types of parent include:
  • Foster parent, an adult guardian to whom one or more children have been legally entrusted
  • Godparent, in Christianity, someone who sponsors a child's baptism
  • Helicopter parent, one who pays extremely close attention to their child or children, particularly at educational institutions
  • Single parent, a parent who has never been married, especially a custodial biological parent who does not live with the other biological parent of his/her children - as distinct from a widowed or divorced parent, who is legally an "unmarried" parent; single and unmarried parents can also be adoptive parents and step-parents, as well as biological parents.
  • Parent-in-law, a mother-in-law or father-in-law
• Parenting (magazine), a magazine providing advice to parents, published in the United States
• Parent (magazine), another magazine
• Parent bug, Elasmucha grisea, a shield bug (a type of insect characterized by its shield-shaped body)
• Parent chain, in organic chemistry, is the longest continuous chain of connected carbon atoms in a hydrocarbon
• Parent company or holding company, a company that owns enough voting stock in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors
• Parent material, in soil science, means the underlying bedrock from which soil horizons form
• Parent node (or ancestor node), a node in a tree data structure that links to one or more child nodes
• Parent process, a computer process that has created one or more child processes
• Parent regiment, a type of army regimental system
• The Parent Trap film series, a 1961 film, several sequels, and a 1998 remake
• Parents (film), a 1989 horror film
• Parent, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune of the Puy-de-Dôme département, in France

Surname

• Alphonse-Marie Parent (1906–1970), Canadian priest and administrator
• Bernie Parent (born 1945), Canadian professional ice hockey player
• Gilbert Parent (born 1935), Canadian Member of Parliament
• Mark Parent (born 1954), Canadian Member of the Legislative Assembly
• Mark Parent (baseball player) (born 1961), American Major League Baseball player
• Maury Parent (died 2004), American radio personality
• Mimi Parent (1924–2005), Canadian surrealist artist
• Simon-Napoléon Parent (1855–1920), Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec
• Steven Parent (1951–1969), victim of the Charles Manson murders

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