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UK
/pˈeəɹəntɪd/
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ADJECTIVE
- having a parent or parents or cared for by parent surrogates
How To Use parented In A Sentence
- What would your self-esteem look like if roles were reversed and you were the child being parented by someone just like you?
- Opposition parties say laws are needed urgently to deal with the issue of surrogate parenting after an Irish gay couple parented triplets through a surrogate mother in California.
- There are also other kinds of families in this country, and the statistics from the Ministry of Social Development that have been revealed point out that 0.2 percent of families are parented by same-sex couples.
- In addition, the children in these families are parented by monoracial individuals who cannot fully understand what it means to be biracial.
- This isn't the case, clearly, because not all families are parented by lesbians.
- In a recent study of substance-dependent men and women entering treatment, 20% of these adults lived with and parented a child.
- We parent in response to the way we were parented.
- Is that because you were not parented, you were unnurtured? Times, Sunday Times
- She worried that V.C. had a number of physical complaints, which affected the way she parented her children.
- I used to marvel at the way Geneviève parented: how she pushed her stroller down cobblestones the size of grapefruits without twisting an ankle, and how she managed like many French parents to be simultaneously severe and laissez-faire, private but pleasure-loving. Debra Ollivier: Mothers Superior: From China To France, It's Childhood That Counts