unparented

(ʌnˈpɛərəntɪd)

adj

(Biology) having no parent or parents

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Adj.

unparented - having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates

parentless

parented - having a parent or parents or cared for by parent surrogates

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promote the idea that unparented children should be kept at almost all

Regulating Corruption in Intercountry Adoption

They have a sense of feeling unparented, unanchored in the world and they are doubley victimized since they are stigmatized for their "orphan" status.

Phantom Limbs

[The comparison between parented and unparented adolescents in terms of psychological hardiness].

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When he was 16, Rogers had organized with two friends his first unparented horse pack into the Cliffs, a ten-day journey that was to culminate in "a big bear hunt." Two of the horses escaped and fled home, others got mired in a bog, and Rogers ended up lost for days, turned about in the deep woods.

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Grace and Ali will roam as ostensibly free, unparented babes in the wood.

School nursing the QK way

If an infantilized nation needs to teach parenting to the unparented, so be it; but there is another example of state nannying that is far from benign.

The end of innocence

We say to each other "release the dogs" but of course there are no dogs, and the children push past us to the stone fountain half-filled with last week's rainwater in which other, unparented children are splashing.

The Weather in Fritz Bemelmans Park

Japan has around 400 children's homes with over 25,000 unparented children living in them and there is no tradition of domestic adoption.

Intercountry adoption after the Haiti earthquake: rescue or robbery?

To quote Max Hastings in London's Daily Mail, "Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, unparented, welfare dependent, brutalized youngsters.

Disillusionment with higher education in the Middle East and the United States