Is a parent a person who gives birth to a child?
Is a parent a person who raises a child?
Do you have to give birth to a child in order to be a parent?
Does giving birth to a child make you a parent?
According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, a parent is
- One that begets or brings forth offspring
- A person who brings up and cares for another
- A female parent
- (1): a woman in authority; specifically: the superior of a religious community of women (2): an old or elderly woman
- Maternal tenderness or affection
- Maternal tenderness or affection
- a: one related to another in a way suggesting that of father to child b: an old man —used as a respectful form of address
I don't think you need to birth a child to be a parent and just becuase you birth a child, doesn't make you a parent.
I know people who have kids and they don't deserve them. By saying that I mean that they only had the chid to get the "perks" of having kids, like the extra money, holding onto the past [an ex], hurting someone [payback], etc... I also know people who have kids that have kids that deserve them and worked EXTRA hard to have kids.
I just wish people would respect and realize that there's people out there that can't have kids and here they are abusing that PRIVILAGE.
Being a parent and having a child is a PRIVILAGE, NOT A RIGHT!
I'm one of those people that wants that privilage to have a child. After miscarriages, that privilage seems far off and non-reachable, while I look at worthless parents who keep popping kids out.
