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• a  having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates

• He became one of Sudan's Lost Boys parentless, he walked hundreds of miles in search of safety, then spent years in one refugee camp after another.
• The little darlings are parentless and begging to be taken home.
• In the simple TV tale, she coddles young "Buddy" (as Capote is called) and tries to shield him from his dour and insensitive relatives in the parentless household.

• unparented

• parented

News & Articles

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• Residence halls shouldn’t be required
  Campus emergency alert: freshmen are invading. In packs they run, guided by orientation counselors and followed by their nervous parents as they familiarize themselves with their soon-to-be home. In the fall, the class of 2017 will return parentless.
  June 19, 2013 - The Daily Evergreen

Quotes

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• Jeb Hensarling in MiamiHerald.com
  Congress is now trying to cover-up mistakes by the administration and 'parentless' stimulus language that did nothing to stop the bonuses by imposing a 90 percent tax on the funds,said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas. "They are, in the word...
• Rodolphe Adada in ReliefWeb (press release)
  Soldiers in peacekeeping operations sometimes feel like parentless children, and when they receive a high profile delegation like this, it serves as a morale booster not only for the troops but also for the mission as a whole,Mr. Adada said.
• Stephen Lewis in New York Times
  A burgeoning population of parentless children, adolescents and rootless youth is simply overwhelming for every state,Mr. Lewis said in the lectures he delivered at the University of Toronto last year.