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Parent may refer to:

• Parenting, comprising all the tasks involved in raising a child to an independent adult. Types of parents include:
  • Foster parent, an adult guardian to whom one or more children have been legally entrusted.
  • Godparent, in Christianity, someone who sponsors a child's baptism.
  • Helicopter parent, one who pays extremely close attention to their child or children, particularly at educational institutions.
  • Single parent, a parent with one or more children, who is neither married, nor living together with his or her partner.
• Parent Bug, Elasmucha grisea, a shield bug (a type of insect characterized by its shield-shaped body).
• Parent chain, in organic chemistry, is the longest continuous chain of connected carbon atoms in a hydrocarbon.
• Parent company or holding company, a company that owns enough voting stock in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors.
• Parent material, in soil science, means the underlying bedrock from which soil horizons form.
• Parent node (or ancestor node), a node in a tree data structure that links to one or more child nodes.
• Parent process, a computer process that has created one or more child processes.
• Parent regiment, a type of army regimental system.
• The Parent Trap, a 1961 film and its 1998 remake.
• Parent, a commune of the Puy-de-Dôme département, in France

Parent is also the name of some people:

• Alphonse-Marie Parent (1906–1970), a Canadian priest and administrator.
• Bernie Parent (born 1945), a Canadian professional ice hockey player.
• Gilbert Parent (born 1935), a Canadian Member of Parliament.
• Maury Parent (died 2004), an American radio personality.
• Mimi Parent (1924–2005), a Canadian surrealist artist.
• Simon-Napoléon Parent (1855–1920), a Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec.
• Steven Parent (1951–1969), a victim of the Charles Manson murders.