Parent

A parent is either the progenitor of an offspring or, among humans, a caregiver or legal guardian such as an adoptive parent or stepparent, and a biological parent is a first-degree relative sharing about fifty percent of their genes with a child. A woman can also become a parent through surrogacy, and adoptive parents raise and nurture a child without being biologically related to them; orphans without adoptive parents may instead be raised by grandparents or other family members. Advances in reproductive medicine have made it possible for a child to have more than two biological parents, for example through surrogacy or a third donor genetic contribution. The most common kinds of parent are mothers, fathers, stepparents and grandparents, and how involved a parent is expected to be in a child life varies by culture, with too little involvement described as neglect and too much as overprotectiveness. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/