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means A person who brings up a child, whether by birth, adoption, or care — the one responsible for raising and nurturing them.
from From Latin 'parens,' meaning 'one who brings forth,' tied to the verb 'parere,' to give birth or produce. It traveled through Old French 'parent' before settling into English in the 1400s. The same root quietly seeds words like 'parturition' and even, distantly, 'repertoire' — all circling the idea of producing or bringing into being.
- sleep debt
- New parents lose about six months of sleep in two years
- DNA hitchhikers
- Fetal cells linger in mothers' bodies for decades
- name origin
- From Latin parere, meaning to bring forth
- universal trait
- Every species' parents will outrun predators for offspring
- voice shift
- Adults instinctively raise pitch when speaking to babies
mary wollstonecraft — mother of mary shelley (frankenstein author), pioneering feminist writer of 1792
joseph jackson — father of michael jackson and the jackson 5, manager from 1964-1989
lea remini's mother — scientology member who raised her in the organization, featured in her 2015 memoir