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• adoptive parent (noun)
  1. a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child
• birth parent (noun)
  1. a child's natural mother or father, rather than someone who has become the child's legal mother or father through ADOPTION
• female parent (noun)
  1. also used as a term of address to your mother a woman who has given birth to a child
• foster parent (noun)
  1. a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child
• male parent (noun)
  1. also used as a term of address to your father a male parent
• one-parent family (noun)
  1. a family in which there is only one parent who lives with the children [=  single parent family]
• parent company (noun)
  1. a company that controls a smaller company or organization
• parent-teacher association (noun)
  1. a PTA
• single parent (noun)
  1. a mother or father who looks after their children on their own, without a partner [=  lone parent]
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