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  • adjective Not parental.

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non- +‎ parental

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Examples

  • There is no authentic nonparental role for him in between, no option of being a multifaceted adult.

    Bella DePaulo: Don't Want to Divorce? Indulge Your Polyamory or Asexuality, Have Your Affairs, Live Apart Bella DePaulo 2011

  • These administrators point out that kids who have learned to connect with nonparental adults fare much better in college than those who depend solely on their parents for assistance.

    The Blessing of a B Minus Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2010

  • "Further expenditures would be used to subsidize a dynamic new trend of working women and feminists that is ultimately detrimental to the family by entrenching status-quo of nonparental primary nurture of children," he wrote.

    feminist blogs in english » 2009 » August 2009

  • Some conservatives argue that any bill that provides for nonparental child care is by definition bad for kids.

    Bill Pulls Up His Socks 2008

  • Three quarters of all preschool children of working mothers are in nonparental child care, according to a study released last week by the Urban Institute.

    A Patchwork System For Preschoolers 2008

  • Among all abused children, those abused by their birth parents were about equally likely to have been abused by mothers as by fathers (50% and 58%, respectively), but those abused by other parents, parent-substitutes, or other, nonparental perpetrators were much more likely to be abused by males (80 to 90% by males versus 14 to 15% by females).

    But Women Do It, Too 2005

  • Though Chex loved him overwhelmingly, she knew, somewhere in the nonparental reaches of her mind, that he was, after all, only a winged centaur tike his parents.

    Isle of View Anthony, Piers 1990

  • She acknowledged delegating too much to Juan when he was younger—and having a nonparental, siblinglike or marital relationship with him in the immediate past, considering him the man of the household.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • In 2005, more than two-thirds of children in the United States who were under five required nonparental child care, a vast majority of whom received care in a child care setting.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • In 2005, more than two-thirds of children in the United States who were under five required nonparental child care, a vast majority of whom received care in a child care setting.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

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