Talk:Parent

message: How can we have Mother redirect here but have a separate article for Father? --Usgnus 00:05, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's Helicoptor's fault. Georgia guy 00:05, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because father was much less stubby than mother, that's why mother is here, but father has it's own article. I redirected mother here, because everything that was there was already duplicated here. Helicoptor 03:16, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are violating WP:NPOV by introducing systemic gender bias. Better to leave the Mother article alone and remove the Mother content from this article. --Usgnus 14:46, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Systematic bias and NPOV are different things - lack of content is related to NPOV, but it's not the same. Richard001 06:12, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality dispute

message: The Java (technology?) use of "parent" must not be encyclopedia worthy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alien4 (talk • contribs) 02:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Broader'' use? 

message: I originally reverted Ringtail's addition, regarding the encouragement of child abuse in Canada (even though there are laws outlawing this). However, I have brought it back, but with a "fact" tag. Maybe Ringtail can explain more in the child abuse article, without getting personal. -- azumanga 02:55, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Child abuse 

message: Source: Windsor Star.
Last June, a man who was abused by his parents and taken into the Children's Aid Society of Windsor when he was a child found out that several of the employees there were arrested for having and distributing child pornography at the CAS. He became so enraged that nothing was done to protect these children from supposedly "good" child social workers, that he filled up large propane canisters, placed them in the back of his pickup truck (a red Ford F-150), and drove his truck into the front of the building, destroying the front face of it, killing himself. News stations such as WJBK-TV, WDIV-TV, and WTOL-TV in addition to the Windsor stations reported this. The distraught man's actions resulted in the CAS being indefinitely shut down. The Ontario Provincial Police has refused to comment on this story whenever they are asked (again, windsor star is the source of information).
The Dalton McGuinty Government has also issued no statements on this case, and has repeatedly ignored requests for inquiries into the province's child services and social services ministries, much to the disgust of voting taxpayers. Further reports from the Windsor Star have placed Canada directly behind the United States and England as worst nations for children (USA is the worst, england is second worst, canda is third). This is not surprising, considering Canada's complete lack of regard for child safety, such as in the Myles Neuts case (a child from Chatham, Ontario who was hung up on a bathroom door hook by bullies, ignored by teachers, and found unconscious hours later. He died two weeks later in a hospital), and with the Roman Catholic School Board of Ontario continuing its apartheid-style discrimination against students of colour or those with special needs or Autism (i have been through this myself. I think that counts as a verified source, but if not, i can get a few hundred others to vouch for me).
Though Canada DOES claim to have laws banning child abuse, the laws in reality are either not enforced, countered out by local (town/city) laws, or by corrupt police departments and child welfare agencies that don't care about the constituents they claim to defend and protect.  RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk 03:04, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parents abuse children in canada, governments encourage it 

message: This article does not really give a true description of parents. Many are nice, but many are also terrible ones, like in A Child Called It. I think we shoudl mention parents that abuse/rape/murder their children in the article.  RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk 22:33, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, we should summarize several articles including child abuse as I've added to the To do list. Lack of content is not NPOV though - NPOV is where there are biased statements in the articles. If you want to expand the article, just add an expansion tag. Richard001 06:15, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is not Neutral-POV 

message: made this edit, adding three ELs associated with "Parentline Plus" (note the similarity to the username).  This suggests a WP:COI issue to me.  I'm aware that adding sites to an article is not necessarily a conflict, and might be just fine, depending on the content.  I don't want to delete them reflexively, but would like to know the consensus on whether these links are appropriate. TJRC (talk) 20:14, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parentline COI? 

message: There is a subsection, "Father", and no "Mother". Unless objection is spelt out here, I'm going to add the Mother subsection, and edit article text to match. Biggus Dictus (talk) 02:36, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Go ahead, by all means. -- Ryk V (talk) 03:05, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of Balance 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I added this to the list of See also. However i think it is worthy of being a subsection in this entry also. Anyone?--Rashba (talk) 19:17, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hak ettiğini izah eden çağırma biçimi nedir 94.235.224.91 (talk) 16:25, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Honoring parents  

message: Women taking care of their parents after aging 122.174.132.124 (talk) 14:03, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Women taking care of their parents after aging 

message: According to OED and Cambridge,  parents are the people who create a child, and the term can also be applied to some caregivers. 
The current definition is nonsensical because not all caregivers are parents. 
- Outside of humans, animal caregivers aren’t referred to as parents. 
- In many species, parents do not care for their offspring. In many the father dies after copulation and/or the mother dies during birth. These are still parents, and are referred to without qualification “biological parents”.
- In many species and cultures, many people care for offspring who are not parents. 
The lede should state that a parent is the progenitor off an offspring, and that it can be applied to some caregivers. Oxenfording (talk) 17:10, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of a parent