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  • noun Plural form of nonparent.

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Examples

  • How else are nonparents to learn about parenthood unless someone lets us peek into that world?

    Our Motherhood, Our Selves | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • Good post, and completely reasonable and sensitive to nonparents (specifically, non-moms).

    Our Motherhood, Our Selves | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • Nor did they reapply it any more frequently than nonparents under most conditions.

    Parents, kids, and sunscreen 2009

  • And I am dying thinking about the looks you must get from nonparents in the stores with Wonderbaby carrying around the plush penis LOL.

    Deliverance | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • Nor did they reapply it any more frequently than nonparents under most conditions.

    Parents, kids, and sunscreen 2009

  • For that reason, I'm much less likely to open myself up to the parents who have been especially smug around nonparents; it's not that I don't respect them and what they're doing but that I have to protect myself from their lack of respect for my boundaries.

    Our Motherhood, Our Selves 2008

  • How else are nonparents to learn about parenthood unless someone lets us peek into that world?

    Our Motherhood, Our Selves 2008

  • Good post, and completely reasonable and sensitive to nonparents specifically, non-moms.

    Our Motherhood, Our Selves 2008

  • The National Marriage Project's 2006 "State of Our Unions" report says that parents have significantly lower marital satisfaction than nonparents because they experienced more single and child-free years than previous generations.

    Having Kids Makes You Happy 2008

  • Yes, there are a lot of nonparents who absolutely don't want to hear about babies all the time, and who don't care about parenting issues in general.

    Our Motherhood, Our Selves 2008

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