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How to use the word parent in a Sentence?

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The American notion of freedom transcended the political realm and in fact extended to every major category of human relationships, including those between employer and employee, clergyman and layman, husband and wife, parent and child, public official and citizen. Americans believed that, as of July 4, 1776, all men were created equal, and that any impairment of a man’s equality was destructive of his liberty also.

David M. Potter

added by Normando
3 months ago

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ...You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

Mother Teresa

added by Normando
10 months ago

Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life

Elon Musk

added by alexbloodfire
1 year ago

I ’m a parent of three boys, and when I hear from my boys [ that ] they do n’t want to go to the bathroom because people will be vaping in there, it just breaks my heart that they’re not having a bathroom break all day because of that, that kids are so addicted that they have to sneak away to the bathroom, or they are vaping in class using some covert pieces of clothing, shows this really is a public health crisis. Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every Tuesday from the CNN Health team.

Susan Walley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We want to reassure every parent that we have their interests at heart in the work we’re doing to provide teens with safe, supportive experiences online, these are complex issues, but we will continue working with parents, experts and regulators such as the state attorneys general to develop new tools, features and policies that meet the needs of teens and their families.

Antigone Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was communicated with the parent that the school would not have any future showings during this school year as the movie had already been shown.

Isabel Mascareñas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To be able to usher my children through this loss, it comes from 40 years of pain and knowing what that little nine-year-old girl needed and received, to lose a parent is traumatic, and the way the parents were lost during the pandemic, to have to grieve in isolation, that compounds the pain exponentially.

Courtesy Veronica Fletcher Veronica Fletcher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Especially early on the pandemic, you didn’t get to say goodbye. You didn’t get to be in the hospital. You didn’t get to hold their hand. That loss impacts you dramatically and sits with you for a really long time, when that loss is for a young person, someone who’s losing a parent, it’s a really different kind of loss.

Christopher Kocher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What some legislation is doing here in Frankfort is tearing that away and saying, ‘No, big government is going to tell you what is medically best for your children.’ As a parent, I think that’s wrong, when it comes to this issue polling doesn’t matter to me because I believe it’s the right thing to do.

Andy Beshear

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A parent with a child should know where they’re going to take their kid in an emergency. That’s not something you decide when your child has the emergency.

Daniel Rauch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s almost always one – and often multiple – risk factors that are really avoidable with additional societal assistance, being a new parent is hard. And it’s hard to talk about these issues without talking about the supports that we give new parents as a society.

Rebecca Carlin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s never too late to start, sleep is very individualized, and every child will respond differently to the time change. Make sure you as the parent are getting the rest you need as well, so you’re not overly irritable with your child.

Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s more than one way to make magenta with iridescence, the parent species each have their own way of making magenta, which is, I think, why you can have this nonlinear or surprising outcome when you mix together those two recipes for producing a feather color.

Field Museum senior research scientist

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This decision should alarm every single parent in the United States of America who according to the Lake County State’s Attorney knows exactly what is going on with their 19-year-old adult children and can be held criminally liable for actions taken nearly three years later, these charges are absurd and we will fight them every step of the way.

George Gomez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If they’re getting the message that they’re losing their own coverage, a lot of times a parent understandably thinks that their child is also losing coverage.

Joan Alker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If I were a parent, I would ask those questions, where are the AEDs in my school? Are they accessible, and does someone know how to use them if they’re needed?

Kathy Dieringer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I can’t say thank you enough, all of us who don’t want this country to go backwards, banning books in a country all about diversity, every parent, celebrity, and person who is an advocate of literacy and truth and real American history needs to speak out so our voices remain louder than the opposition.

Derrick Barnes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The world of drag is no different than any other aspect of entertainment in our world, if you are a parent that is concerned about what your child is seeing, then you stay involved in what you’re allowing your child to be exposed to.

Sarah Warbelow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They tap into the worst anxieties of any parent.

Sarah Kate Ellis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The findings of this of this report were, as a pediatrician and a parent, just exactly what you would expect. Parenting is the hardest thing you’ll ever do, and there are very high levels of stress and fatigue, especially in the parents of young children.

Maggi Smeal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know that the best chance for a child to be successful and happy is for them to have at least one person in their life who believes in them and advocates for them. So I think it’s important for parents to know that there’s no such thing as a perfect parent, because we are all human, and humans are imperfect by nature, but that is OK.

Katherine Williamson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is up to a parent, like they would for any other topic, to make it developmentally appropriate.

Riana Elyse Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m the youngest parent in the Democratic caucus, AI is going to be part of my life and it could be a general purpose technology for my children.

Jake Auchincloss

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Then I can start to think about the origin of this rock, how it evolved over time, what kind of parent body it came from, and where in the solar system that parent body formed, those are kind of the big questions that we try to address.

Maria Valdes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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