parenthood

par·ent

P0069200 (pâr′ənt, păr′-)n.1. a. A female person whose egg unites with a sperm or a male person whose sperm unites with an egg, resulting in the conception of a child or the birth of a child.b. A female person who is pregnant with or gives birth to a child except when someone else has legal rights to the child.c. A person who adopts a child.d. A person who raises a child.2. An ancestor; a progenitor.3. An organism that produces or generates offspring.4. A guardian; a protector.5. A parent company.6. A source or cause; an origin: Despair is the parent of rebellion.v. par·ent·ed, par·ent·ing, par·ents v.tr.1. To act as a parent to; raise and nurture: "A genitor who does not parent the child is not its parent" (Ashley Montagu).2. To cause to come into existence; originate.v.intr. To act as a parent.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin parēns, parent-, from past active participle of parere, to give birth; see perə- in Indo-European roots.]

par′ent·hood′ n.

Parenthood

A childless person is like dead —Talmud
The honor due to parents is like the honor due to God —The Holy Bible/Exodus
Children, grown up, now, and moved away … though they had once occupied her like a house, possessing her to the fingertips —Helen Hudson
The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction —Milton R. Sapirstein
(Maybe I’ve got this secret kid. Chances are I have, ‘cause) I probably got a sperm count like the national deficit —Jane Wagner
Love them [daughters] as sheep are loved by the shepherd —Phyllis McGinley
Marriage without children … like a garden without fruit —Phyllis Bottome
Compare this with the German proverb below, beginning with Wedlock.
See Also: INCOMPLETENESS
Mother’s virtues … like a graft of a late fruit on an early apple or pear tree, do not ripen in her children until very late in the season —Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
A mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law in one house are like two cats in a bag —Yiddish proverb
A mother-in-law is like the dry rot; far easier to get into a house than to get out again —Punch
Not to bear children … was like a hen that did not lay eggs or a cow that was sterile or a tree that never came into blossom. —H. E. Bates
Raising a child is like reading a very long mystery story; you have to wait for a generation to see how it turns out —Anon
Realised [after giving birth] the responsibility of launching the little creature labelled by name not of its own choosing, like launching a battleship, only instead of turrets and decks and guns she had to do with the miraculous tissue of flesh and brain —Vita Sackville-West
Sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child —William Shakespeare
This is King Lear’s famous lament.
See Also: PAIN, SHARPNESS
The umbilical cord stretches like a nine-hundred-and-some-mile leash —Peter De Vries
Wedlock without children [is like] a world without sun —German proverb
A woman … her heart is like an empty nest, if she has not a child —Henry Van Dyke

Thesaurus

Noun

parenthood - the state of being a parent; "to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man"parentageadulthood - the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity

parenthood

noun fatherhood or motherhood, parenting, rearing, bringing up, nurturing, upbringing, child rearing, baby or child care, fathering or mothering She may not feel ready for the responsibilities of parenthood.Quotations
"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories" [John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester]

Translations

父母的身份

parent

(ˈpeərənt) noun1. one of the two persons etc (one male and one female) who are jointly the cause of one's birth. 父，母 2. a person with the legal position of a mother or father eg by adoption. 养父或养母ˈparentage (-tidʒ) noun family or ancestry. a man of unknown parentage.出身parental (pəˈrentl) adjectiveparental responsibility.父母的ˈparenthood noun the state of being a parent. 父母的身份

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noun fatherhood or motherhood

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noun the state of being a parent

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