Parenting that uses a very friendly approach rather than an authoritarian one.

A parent who uses a very friendly approach to raising children rather than an authoritarian one.

plural of parent language

A language from which a later language is derived.

(Manitoba) A former film classification advising that viewers under 15 years of age be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

plural of parent trigger

(US, education, law) A legal maneuver through which parents can change the administration of a poorly performing public school, most notably by transforming it into a charter school.

A nuclear family with only one parent.

plural of single-parent family

A supposed disturbance in which children are obsessively preoccupied with depreciation and/or criticism of a parent.