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A quick definition of parent:

A parent is someone who is either a mother or a father to another person. This can happen naturally when a baby is born to them, or it can happen through legal ways like adoption. Sometimes, people can also become temporary parents through foster care. If someone marries a person with a child, they become a stepparent, but they need to adopt the child to become a legal parent. Parents can lose their legal rights to a child if they give them up or if the state takes them away.

A more thorough explanation:

A parent is someone who is either the biological mother or father of a child, or someone who has legally become a parent through adoption or foster care. Parents are responsible for taking care of their children and making important decisions for them.

  • John and Mary are the parents of their newborn baby, Sarah.
  • After going through the adoption process, Tom and Lisa became the legal parents of a 5-year-old boy named Jack.
  • When Sarah's parents were unable to take care of her, she was placed in foster care with a family who became her temporary parents.

These examples illustrate the different ways in which someone can become a parent. In the first example, John and Mary became parents through childbirth. In the second example, Tom and Lisa became parents through adoption. In the third example, the foster family became temporary parents to Sarah while her biological parents were unable to care for her.

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9:32
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worthless i trust you implicitly you know what it will happen now.
worthless i trust you implicitly you know what it will happen now.
worthless i trust you implicitly you know what it will happen now.
worthless i trust you implicitly you know what it will happen now.
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WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:34
I mean if Fordham doesn't release today I will purposefully get on a train, go to new york, and then take the stinkiest shit inside the admission office's toilet (potentially clogging it and forcing them to get a plumber)
IS IT ONLY ON MY END WHY DID THAT SEND TEN MILLION TIMES
HELLO
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:35
it sent a million times lol
WHAT HAPPENED
yeah i thought you were tweaking for a second
i'm so sorry everyone what the actual fuck this website hates me
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:35
Jack's just tweaking on LSD no biggie
to be fair this accurately represents my mental state
election day psychosis coming in hot (fordham)
usc pls pull through .....
i literally just need one A so i can relax before my ED decision
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:38
oh that's right USC might release
soapy
9:43
USC still has not looked at my app
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:43
when did you submit soapy?
soapy
9:44
10/16
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:44
to be fair it took them almost 2 months for me to go under review
soapy
9:44
Feelin a bit stressed, as I've got no date change for Michigan either despite applying 10/7
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:45
I have not had a date change either for Mich but I've seen people get in without one so who knows
I applied 9/25 to like 6 schools and some (Houston) have no date change yet so dw
soapy
9:46
But do people get in without addresses going long?
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:46
it's tough to tell because a lot of people type out their addresses long to begin with
soapy
9:46
Ah. I didn't. Looking back, my Mich supplement kind of sucks, so there's that
Mich overrated (Dean Z please let me in even tho i didnt apply and I am below both 25ths)
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