parentship

People who readily accept the responsibility of parentship, having very different matters in their eye, are apt to feel rueful when that responsibility falls due.

Lay Morals 2005

The judge decided to give most of the parentship to the mother, even though the father was the one who cared most for the child during her life.

A little critical of an “opt-out-revolution” article 2005

People who readily accept the responsibility of parentship, having very different matters in their eye, are apt to feel rueful when that responsibility falls due.

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

But when the old soldier died, rumours went abroad that he had confessed on his death-bed that he was not in any way related to Calderon; that he had submitted to an imposture which secured to his old age so respectable and luxurious an asylum; and that he knew not for what end Calderon had forced upon him the honours of spurious parentship.

Calderon the Courtier, a Tale Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

“The Bill is my child — I’ll not disclaim parentship and I’ll look after myself.”

The Nursing Home Murder Marsh, Ngaio, 1899-1982 1963