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==Definition==
The activity of being a parent; the rearing of a child or children; (with modifying [[word]]) the [[manner]] in which a parent raises a child.
===Chronologic Sample===
*1938 N.Y. Times 25 Dec. D8/2 If the parent fears his job of parenting..he, too, pulls his [[feelings]] in and looks for rules to use in place of sensitivity to the child's needs.
*1972 Times 30 Oct. 8/3 The single-minded, unconditional desire..to provide a loving, caring [[home]], which is the hallmark of good parenting.
*1992 Metro (San Jose, Calif.) 7-13 May 49/1 Those who crave a break from parenting can park the rug rats at ‘Camp Hyatt’.
==Description==
'''Parenting''' is the [[process]] of promoting and supporting the development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the activity of raising a child rather than the biological [[relationship]].[1]

In the case of [[human]]s, it is usually done by the biological parents of the child in question,[2] although governments and [[society]] take a role as well. In many cases, orphaned or abandoned children receive parental care from non-parent blood relations. Others may be adopted, raised by foster care, or be placed in an orphanage.

The goals of [[human]] parenting are debated. Usually, parental figures provide for a child's [[physical]] needs, protect them from harm, and impart in them skills and cultural values until they reach legal adulthood, usually after adolescence.
==Quote==
Family life is the progenitor of true [[morality]], the ancestor of the [[consciousness]] of loyalty to duty. The enforced associations of family life stabilize [[personality]] and stimulate its growth through the compulsion of necessitous adjustment to other and diverse personalities. But even more, a true [[family]]--a good family--reveals to the parental procreators the [[attitude]] of the [[Creator]] to his children, while at the same time such true parents portray to their children the first of a long series of [[ascending]] disclosures of the [[love]] of the [[Paradise]] parent of all [[universe]] children.[http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper84.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper84.html&line=182#mfs]

==References==
# Davies, Martin (2000). The Blackwell encyclopaedia of social work. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 245. ISBN 9780631214519.
# Bernstein, Robert (2008-02-20), Majority of Children Live With Two Biological Parents, retrieved 2009-03-26
# Parenting For Everyone (Педагогика для всех, 2000, ISBN 5-8246-0042-2)
# "States with full abolition". Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
# Dare to Discipline. Bantam, 1982. ISBN 0-553-20346-0
# Special Report: Christian Parenting 2001
# Press Release: "Troubled Teen Son..." 2009