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- noun biology, sociology an adult animal or person involved in parent-like behaviour towards an individual which is not his or her offspring
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then I went to visit ashacat and play alloparent for a few hours so she could do things she needed both hands for, and then she and I took Sunil for a walk and met neighbor dogs, and then we went climbing.
This is probably not where Scalzi got the name of his blog, but for the moment I'm going to pretend. ashacat 2008
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4 My alloparent, mr. delagar, is making a documentary, about a local artist.
Light Blogging delagar 2006
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4 My alloparent, mr. delagar, is making a documentary, about a local artist.
Archive 2006-10-01 delagar 2006
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If they had, they would have seen a lot of what Patricia Hill Collins calls “community mothering” and Hrdy refers to as “alloparents” – a community network of both extended family and close friends or neighbors that support parents in raising the next generation.
US mothers don't just need new policies – they need a cultural shift | Amy Westervelt Amy Westervelt 2018
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These “alloparents,” a term popularized by anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy in her book Mother Nature, may have been crucial to the survival of the human race, and they’ve been proven to improve children’s health, socio-emotional, and behavioral outcomes.
“She comes, they are happy”: How communal grandparents are helping raise Finnish children Annabelle Timsit 2022
qms commented on the word alloparent
Though hearts are swiftly beguiled
By orphans that ought to be wild
The zookeeper daren’t
Become alloparent,
Attached to a beast like a child.
August 4, 2018