parental care
Tending to young
Parental care is the investment of time, energy, and resources that parents make in raising their offspring.
In biology, it encompasses behaviors like feeding, protecting, and teaching young until they can survive independently.
The term appears in both scientific contexts discussing animal behavior and social discussions about child-rearing practices.
Parental care in mammals typically involves extended nursing periods.
The study examined how parental care affects childhood development.
- carryMove while supporting
- holdMaintain in grasp
- holding handsGripping another's palm
- comfortEase or soothing relief
- feedSupply with sustenance
kiss goodnight · night feeding · bonding · mentoring · affection · teaching · weaning · diaper change · hygiene · warmth · provisioning · hug · territoriality · empathy · cradling · nesting · bedtime story · milk
- parental care
- animal behavioranimal behavior, instincts, learned behavior, conditioning, social behavior
- mammal traitsfur, hair, mammary glands, milk production, milk
- bird breedingegg, nest, hatch, chick, hatching
- brood carenest building, incubation, brooding, hatching, nursing
- children's rightschildren's rights, child rights, child protection, child welfare, child advocacy
parental careabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
child abandonment · neglect · parental neglect · desertion · child neglect
parental careinfanticide
Killing of newborns
child abuse · parental abuse · child endangerment · filicide · mistreatment