bonus parents
bonus parents is the plural of bonus parent.
Meaning of bonus parent
Noun
bonus parent (plural bonus parents)
- A person who serves in a parental role to a child who has a different biological parent, with or without formally marrying the child’s other parent or going through the formal process of adoption.
- Later when my parents remarried we saw that both Mum and Rob had the opportunity for second-chance happiness. And we had a bonus parent in stepfather Ross.1992, Penelope Hansen, My Father and Me: New Zealand Women Remember, Tandem Press, →ISBN, page 233
- Synonyms:
- alloparent
Questions about bonus parents
- What is bonus parents the plural of?
- Bonus parents is the plural of bonus parent.
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