prospective parent

collocation in English

meaningsofprospectiveandparent

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prospective
adjective
uk
/prəˈspek.tɪv/us
/prəˈspek.tɪv/
people who are expected to buy something, employ someone, become ...
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parent
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpeə.rənt/us
/ˈper.ənt/
a mother or father of a person or an animal, or someone who looks after a person in the same way that a ...
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(Definition ofprospectiveandparentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Prior to cloning, noprospectiveparentever had such knowledge.
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For the sake of argument, however, we will envisage a situation in which children can be produced by cloning aprospectiveparent.
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That is, if, for example, aprospectiveparentselects a boy, this action does not by any means eradicate the element of reproductive happenstance.
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Unconditional welcome is an ideal for aprospectiveparent; it cannot be held up to reproach an individual who declines that role.
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The information is also very easily shared with the prospective parents and contributes positively to their experience of pregnancy.
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However, the information provided to adoption agencies and prospective parents is often meager, confusing, or inaccurate.
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However, the extra time is not useful if prospective parents do not have access to professionals who are able to interpret the information.
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In a variety of forums, information is provided to prospective parents that a sizeable percentage of institutionalized children have seriously debilitating problems.
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He believes that doctors should not coerce prospective parents to have the best child they can but that they should still persuade them to.
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Ultimately the relationship between prospective parents, infertility specialists, and the embryos that they create is a highly ambiguous one.
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The first concerns those prospective parents who are not already pregnant.
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Some of the initial enthusiasm of prospective parents for genetic manipulation of embryos is bound to fade as people recognize the falsity of genetic determinism.
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Would not the prospective parents in those circumstances better promote the welfare of future children by waiting until conditions improved?
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There will, of course, always be some wealthy prospective parents whose families harbor disease-related genes of high penetrance.
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These prospective parents want to know the probability of whether their children will have deformities or fatal diseases.
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Even if the agency fails to adequately present the potential risks that institutional care pose for the development of children, prospective parents are often aware that the risks exist.
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The fact that most books on naming in bookshops seem to address only prospective parents who need to name their child also does not give the study a high standing.
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