noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a parents' evening (= an event at a school, at which parents meet and talk to their children's teachers )
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It was parents' evening at her son's school.
a proud mother/father/parent
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Mark is the proud father of a three-week-old baby boy.
absent parent/father
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plans to force absent fathers to pay child maintenance
birth parent
helicopter parents
loving wife/family/parents etc
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the confidence he had gained from having a warm and loving family
One Parent Families/Gingerbread
parent company
prospective parents (= people who may have a child in the future. Also used to mean people who may send their child to a particular school. )
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Adoption is more complicated than many prospective parents believe.
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Prospective parents are welcome to visit the school at any time.
single parent
speak as a parent/teacher etc
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Speaking as a medical man, I'd advise you to take some exercise every day.
the parent company (= the one that owns or controls a smaller one )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
elderly
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Judith Mellor's elderly parents have already attracted the Minister's fury -by publicly criticising him over the Antonia de Sancha affair.
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People are becoming increasingly faced with having some responsibility for the care of their elderly parents or relatives.
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He blamed his shyness and gauche manner on his upbringing, as the only child of elderly parents .
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One main challenge during the midlife years may be taking care of elderly parents .
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Ianthe was the only child of elderly parents , who seemed to be a whole generation removed from those of her contemporaries.
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Anytime / anyplace work can be ideal for those needing to care for children or elderly parents .
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He was accompanied by 18 members of his family, including his wife Kulsoom, his three children and his elderly parents .
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How can you help your elderly parent reduce the risks?
foster
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On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.
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With support and training, his foster parents can learn to work with him successfully.
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He felt an enormous sense of gratification mixed with affection for his two foster parents .
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The survey also found that a quarter of foster parents had received no written information on the Act.
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By then, the girl had been put into the temporary care of foster parents by Wirral Council.
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The eight-month-old baby is recovering with Middlesbrough foster parents following the operation to remove water from the brain.
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His foster parents say they're giving him a break from events back home.
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It was the loveliest day imaginable now that she knew the name of Angel's foster parents .
lone
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More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.
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Consumer durables Lone parent families are less likely than two parent families to have household consumer durables.
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Thirdly, we must consider further ways to assist lone parents .
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Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.
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The majority of lone parents become so as the result of separation, divorce or death.
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The most vulnerable were full-time students over 19; students from lower social classes; lone parents and couples with children.
single
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Under the supplementary benefit system, single parents could earn additional income and only part of this was offset against their benefit.
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Historically, the single parent has been the norm in no society, but patriarchal linear life is now economically over.
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She was a single parent and had a nine-year-old son, Darren, who was in a home for mentally handicapped children.
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It was simple this way, to be the single parent of an only child.
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Examiner contributor Elva Yanez is a single parent living in Albany.
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And benefit changes make it easier for more families - including single parents - to combine work and family responsibilities.
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A single parent with two or three children in California would lose $ 1 in income.
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birth
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For adopted children that quest may include tracing their natural or birth parents .
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Adopted children and birth parents are registering at Web archives with hopes of making matches.
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After that they are free to carry out the search for their birth parents .
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Allowing birth parents to express their emotions can be an important part of confronting their grief.
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None of the children wanted to go and live with their birth parents , but simply to keep contact.
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Attempts at reuniting them with their birth parents will have failed.
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Tracing birth parents Having obtained their original birth certificate, adoptees can start tracing their birth parents.
company
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Less dramatic were changes in company ownership following changes in a parent company.
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It is a complicated saga which is still unravelling, with the former parent company , Alan Paul, now in liquidation.
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Often subsidiaries are required to guarantee or give charges in support of borrowings by the parent company or other companies in the group.
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Beauty features highlight another problem which can arise if the parent company is based abroad.
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Newhouse is the owner of Knopf's parent company .
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Today, after 150 years in business, Smith &038; Wesson is up for sale by its parent company .
family
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Health and infant mortality 7 Children under five How many live with both parents or in a one parent family ?
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Priority for assistance will be given to senior citizens, disabled and single parent families .
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Consumer durables Lone parent families are less likely than two parent families to have household consumer durables.
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In common with families in general, one parent families have been getting smaller.
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Only about 2 % nationally of single parent families are thought to be headed by the father.
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Table Number of lone parents by type Percentage changes in the numbers of one parent families , 1976-1986, Great Britain.
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This compared with 10 percent of two parent families with dependent children.
■ VERB
help
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Such characteristics inevitably help to shape parent reactions, which in turn affect the child's adjustment.
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We view skin-to-skin care as a major advance in helping parents develop a closer tie to their infant.
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Education secretary John Patten says the tables will help parents choose the best schools.
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We also believe that certain settings and certain kinds of support can help parents form these bonds and nurture their children successfully.
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Returning home from one such expedition, I couldn't help remembering how my parents entertained their circle in Hull.
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Black militants came to Ocean Hill-Brownsville from around the city to help mobilize parents and press the racial agenda.
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It is possible to help parents draw up two lists.
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The narratives help parents become conscious of the negative and positive traditions passed down through the generations.
live
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Having to choose between living with their parents or getting married, most young women used to opt for marriage.
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Scott spent his early childhood living with his parents in a one-room shack in a rural area outside of Tacoma.
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Life at home was good, I had become used to living with my parents , and gradually I integrated at school.
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The 21 % of dependent children living in lone-parent households has trebled from the 7 % in 1972.
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Her father had died long before, leaving behind a childless aunt who had lived with her parents .
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Until then, he had lived with his parents at their home in Princes Risborough.
love
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We will teach it to love as we its parents purely everlasting.
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Their search in no way means that they are dissatisfied with their adopted home or love their adopted parents any the less.
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Be assured, if that child loved his parents at all, that an engram exists here.
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McCarthy was a lucky child, privileged and loved by beautiful parents .
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Any loving parent can raise a boy or girl.
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How could I commit such an offence when I really do love my parents so much?
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My loving parents are determining my future, with only my best interests at heart.
tell
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Home-school contracts will tell parents exactly what the school undertakes to deliver and what their responsibilities are.
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She told me she is going to tell my parents that I was there, too.
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What tales would Anna have told her parents about her?
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Totally distraught, Amy told her parents .
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He didn't tell Anthony that his parents had paid for his travels.
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His parents told my parents, who are divorced.
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What could I tell the parents about the national curriculum?
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No one tells parents what really to expect in the first parenting months, but it is wild exhilaration and exhaustion.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
biological parent/father/mother etc
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Adopted children and their biological parents may suffer stress long after the adoption. 4.
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It's now estimated that by 2010, children in stepfamilies will actually outnumber those living with two biological parents.
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Most of the debate was really about an alleged universality of the nuclear family of married biological parents and their legitimate children.
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My biological father is diagnosed as paranoid / schizophrenic.
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Or now, when they swear their biological father forced them to make the whole story up?
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Steven Lowe, Liverpool Who would be the biological parents of a human clone, and what legal ramifications would this have?
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The hearing would decide whether the state should terminate the rights of the biological parents and put the child up for adoption.
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The two candidates for the role of biological father were both Black Panthers.
foster mother/father/parents
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By then, the girl had been put into the temporary care of foster parents by Wirral Council.
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His foster parents say they're giving him a break from events back home.
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News of the deal caused outrage in Britain, and Flintshire social services placed the girls with foster parents.
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On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.
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Richard had been passed from one set of foster parents to another until he was ten.
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The children went into voluntary care in June 1991 and were placed together with foster parents.
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The girl, who was with foster parents, wanted her family re-united.
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The sisters were separated, Lore working as a maid and the others going to foster parents.
lone mother/father/parent etc
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More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.
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One Parent Benefit is paid to 75% of lone parents.
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Sheila is a lone parent with two children, aged 13 and 15.
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Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.
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We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort - as we do now.
noncustodial parent/father/mother
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'd like you to meet my parents sometime.
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The airline's parent , AMR Corp., lost $115 million in the first nine months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All these children are mutant children of the same parent , differing from their parent with respect to one gene each.
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Margaret shows the 13 parents how to make things and they show their children.
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Once, after he had been absent a fortnight, the principal tackled his parents.
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Panic-stricken parents, their faces twisted in fear, ran to the school and frantically searched for their sons or daughters.
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Some parents will terminate contact with the therapist because they do not understand why certain questions are being asked.
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To me, it was normal to have parents who worked and were devoted to their children.
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Yet parents above all need those congenial working conditions if they are to parent well.