surrogate parent
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsurrogateandparent
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surrogate
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈsʌr.ə.ɡət/us/ˈsɝː.ə.ɡət/
replacing someone else or used instead of ...
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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 ofsurrogateandparentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsurrogate parent
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It was her older brother and older sister who acted as her surrogate parents.
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Relationships with nieces or nephews tend to be infrequent and perfunctory unless an aunt or uncle has been asurrogateparent.
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In both cases, the older person had become asurrogateparent.
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For example, where the older person has been asurrogateparentand a quasiparental role has emerged, the expectations and responsibilities observed more closely resemble those in parent-child relationships.
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So often, after a divorce, quite naturally one finds asurrogateparentsubstituted for the natural one.
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Often violence is perpetrated not by the parent, but by asurrogateparent, for example, the live-in boyfriend.
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Because they lacked parenting, they need asurrogateparentto walk with them on the journey into adulthood.
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My own feeling is that one of the greatest sources of damage is the presentation of asurrogateparentand the indoctrination of a child.
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In addition to overseeing the daily running of the school, friends recall how lovingly he served assurrogateparentto the younger students.
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It is followed by a shorter section (three chapters) about older people as caregivers - as surrogate parents for grandchildren.
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The three articles about grandparents as care-givers and surrogate parents are timely reminders of a growing societal problem, and of older people as resources in the care system.
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The parents, or surrogate parents such as the grandparents, are a child's first educator.
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I am looking for people who will behave as surrogate parents.
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Over the past 20 or so years, but particularly the past 10 years, we have witnessed fathers disappearing from the scene and taxpayers taking on the responsibility of surrogate parents.
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Relationships with the presenters, who were surrogate parents and carers, were seen as central.
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But he was abandoned soon after birth by his surrogate parents, left to fend for himself in the mountains.
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