Alloparent

Quick meaning: Alloparent is a noun meaning (biology, sociology) An adult animal or person involved in parent-like behaviour towards an individual that is not their offspring.

Meaning

(biology, sociology) An adult animal or person involved in parent-like behaviour towards an individual that is not their offspring.

Example Sentences

In non-humans, alloparents include relatives who have kin-based incentives to help and nonrelatives who are under coercive threat or have no better option for survival.

And Hrdy further suggests that the immersion of human babies in a pool of alloparents would have honed the mind-reading skills and empathy that are so important to our species, faster than anything else.

Maybe my kids should spend more time with my sister and her kids. Maybe my colleague who has kids around the same age as mine, we should do more sleepovers. So there are all sorts of ways in which could imagine just bringing other alloparents into a relationship.

Word Forms

• alloparents

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include allomother, parental, overparent, allofather, underparent, parentalism.

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