parental duties
Guardianship of children
Parental duties are the responsibilities parents have toward their children—providing food, shelter, education, medical care, and emotional support.
The phrase appears most often in legal contexts discussing custody, neglect, or child welfare: The court found she had failed in her parental duties.
It covers both the practical work of raising children and the legal obligations that come with parenthood.
- listeningAttending to sound
- discipliningAdministering corrective measures
- setting boundariesEstablishing personal limits
- feedingGiving food to
- packed lunchesPre-made portable meals
comforting · mentoring · teaching · empathizing · protecting · supervising · school run · sheltering · clothing · encouraging · bathing · providing · vaccinating · guiding · loving · quality time · bonding · holding hands
- family lawchild custody, child support, alimony, family court, divorce petitions
- child lawchild custody, child protection, child welfare, child support, child rights
- family obligationschildcare, eldercare, family support, caregiving, financial support
- parental rightscustody order, legal custody, joint custody, sole custody, child custody
- Islamic familyumm, ab, bint, household, birr
- juvenile lawjuvenile law, juvenile court, juvenile courts, juvenile justice, juvenile rights
parental dutiesparental rights
Legal power over children
personal freedom · childlessness · autonomy · self-determination · leisure
parental dutieschild neglect
Failure to care for minors
parental neglect · child abandonment · child abuse · dereliction of duty · irresponsibility
parental, parent, parents, parenting, parenthood, parentage, duties, dutiful, dutifully