surrogate parents
Replacement mother, father
Surrogate parents are people who take on the parental role for a child not biologically their own, whether temporarily or permanently.
The term covers foster parents, adoptive parents, grandparents raising grandchildren, or others stepping in when biological parents are absent or unable to care for a child: Her aunt and uncle became her surrogate parents after the accident.
- adoptiveLegally taking as one's own
- fosterEncourage development of
- providersThose who furnish
- gestational carrierPerson carrying another's pregnancy
- kinship careRelatives raising displaced children
nurturing · custodian · in loco parentis · chosen family · found family · guardian · substitutes · caregiver · mentors · protectors · caretakers · blended family · child welfare · ward · family law · second mom · wet nurse · custody agreement
surrogate parentsbiological parents
Those who conceived you
birth parents · birth mother · birth father · biological mother · biological father
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