Parent (disambiguation)

Parent may refer to:

*Parenting, comprising all the tasks involved in raising a child to an independent adult. Types of parents include:
**Foster parent, an adult guardian to whom one or more children have been legally entrusted
**Godparent, in Christianity, someone who sponsors a child's baptism
**Helicopter parent, one who pays extremely close attention to their child or children, particularly at educational institutions.
**Single parent, a parent with one or more children, who is neither married, nor living together with his or her partner
*"Parenting" (magazine), a magazine providing advice to parents, published in the United States
*Parents (magazine), another magazine
*Parent Bug, "Elasmucha grisea", a shield bug (a type of insect characterized by its shield-shaped body)
*Parent chain, in organic chemistry, is the longest continuous chain of connected carbon atoms in a hydrocarbon
*Parent company or holding company, a company that owns enough voting stock in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors
*Parent material, in soil science, means the underlying bedrock from which soil horizons form
*Parent node (or ancestor node), a node in a tree data structure that links to one or more child nodes
*Parent process, a computer process that has created one or more child processes
*Parent regiment, a type of army regimental system
*The Parent Trap series, a 1961 film, several sequels, and a 1998 remake
*"Parents" (film), a 1989 horror film
* Parent, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune of the Puy-de-Dôme "département", in France

Parent is also the name of some people:
*Alphonse-Marie Parent (1906–1970), a Canadian priest and administrator
*Bernie Parent (born 1945), a Canadian professional ice hockey player
*Gilbert Parent (born 1935), a Canadian Member of Parliament
*Mark Parent (born 1954), a Canadian Member of the Legislative Assembly
*Mark Parent (born 1961), an American Major League Baseball player
*Maury Parent (died 2004), an American radio personality
*Mimi Parent (1924–2005), a Canadian surrealist artist
*Simon-Napoléon Parent (1855–1920), a Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec
*Steven Parent (1951–1969), a victim of the Charles Manson murders