A parent is a caretaker of offspring in their own species, such as a mother or father.
Parent or parents may also refer to:
Places
- Parent, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in Benton County, in the United States
- Parent, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune of the Puy-de-Dôme département, in France
- Parent, Quebec, a community within the city of La Tuque, Quebec, in Canada
- Parent railway station, a Via Rail station in the community
Entertainment and publishing
- Parents (magazine), a magazine about child development
- "Parents", a rock song by Budgie from the 1973 album Never Turn Your Back on a Friend
Film and TV
- Parents (1989 film), horror film
- Parents (2007 film), Icelandic film
- Parents (2016 film), Danish film
- Parents (TV series), 2012 British sitcom on Sky1
- "Parents" (House), episode of the American television series House
- "Parents" (Up All Night), episode of the American television series Up All Night
- "The Parents", episode of the American television series Smash
- "The Parents" (The Amazing World of Gumball), an episode of the British-American television series The Amazing World of Gumball
- "Parents" (My Hero)
People
- Parent (surname), list of people named Parent
Other uses
- Parent bug, Elasmucha grisea, a shield bug
- Parent chain, in organic chemistry, an unbranched compound
- Parent class, in object-oriented programming
- Parent company, a company that owns enough voting stock to control another firm
- Parent drug, similar to metabolites of drugs
- Parent (military), a larger military unit (garrison, ship, or air force station) controlling a smaller subordinate unit
- Parent node, a node directly connected to another node in a tree data structure
- Parent peak, a mountain of higher elevation connected to another peak
See also
Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Parent.If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Category: