Collocations withparent
These are words often used in combination withparent.
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adopting parent
If the employee is subsequently not put on the register, it can cause difficulties in the workplace for the potential adopting parent.
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adoptive parent
There was, nevertheless, a sizable minority of institutionalized children who appeared to display a secure attachment relationship with their adoptive parent at 4 years.
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aged parent
I have outlined the responsibilities that a woman may have towards her husband, towards her children or towards an aged parent.
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ageing parent
Other programs assist specific groups of carers like young carers and ageing parent carers of adult children.
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alcoholic parent
Coping with stress in a family with an alcoholic parent.
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anxious parent
Records survive of another anxious parent requesting the removal of his offspring to the school.
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bereaved parent
The bottom line is that the only thing that every bereaved parent really wants is his or her child back.
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caring parent
My noble kinsman has suggested a constructive and practical form of words; that is, "harm or distress to the caring parent or her children".
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disabled parent
The main causes of child poverty include having a lone parent or a disabled parent.
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divorced parent
If one of the parents dies or if they divorce, the usual pattern may be that the widowed\\divorced parent moves to the house of a child.
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doting parents
It is perfectly true that young things are seldom beautiful—not even babies, except in the eyes of their doting parents.
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elderly parent
Table 4 presents the results of the regressions of an elderly parent receiving help and receiving daily help from a child or child-in-law.
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foster parent
This child met both conditions hypothesized as necessary for developing a secure attachment; that is, he was placed early with an autonomous foster parent.
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grieving parents
Many grieving parents ask for assistance in getting the bodies home, and they would be equally grieved if we made an exception in this case.
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immigrant parent
Officially refers to any person with at least one immigrant parent.
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loving parent
This is not a relationship which seems aptly characterized as that which exists between a loving parent and child.
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low-income parents
A more politically feasible voucher plan is a targeted plan where only low-income parents qualify for the voucher.
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middle-class parent
No middle-class parent known to the writer has objected to this estimate.
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non-custodial parent
The first is that the non-custodial parent carries a responsibility to contribute financially to the support of his or her children's cost of support.
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parent attachment
Another possible area of study in this regard is child - parent attachment.
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parent involvement
These included relationship building, demonstration of effort and competence, information exchange, availability, and appropriate level of child and parent involvement.
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parent questionnaire
The parent questionnaire also served as a measure of exposure to and use of each language at home.
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parent ratings
Further, the correlations between teacher ratings and the four domains closely paralleled the relation between parent ratings and these domains.
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prospective parent
Prior to cloning, no prospective parent ever had such knowledge.
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supportive parents
They found that more autonomy supportive parents had children who self-reported greater internalization of values for school and achievement.
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surrogate parent
Relationships with nieces or nephews tend to be infrequent and perfunctory unless an aunt or uncle has been a surrogate parent.
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teenage parents
Effects of welfare reform on teenage parents and their children.
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well-to-do parents
If the well-to-do parents can take themselves out of this scheme, why not let them do so?
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working parent
Naturally, much of our focus has been on the working parent.
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worried parent
It will not be offensive to a worried parent because a worried parent has no business to be there and almost certainly will not be there.
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would-be parents
It would have been useful to have had more facts about what parents or would-be parents actually do in practice.
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