The parent, or mother or predecessor as it is often called, is a term that refers to the more general element in a relationship that is formulated in a generalization-type architecture or hierarchical structure. In this type of architecture things...

A parent process is a computer process that has created one or more child processes. In UNIX, every process except process 0 (the swapper) is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process...

THE OTHER DAY, I overheard a conversation in the grocery store. The mother of an infant was telling another woman that she planned on never saying "no" to her child. Instead, she was going to use the words, "poor choice." Apparently she had...

Parents' childrearing behaviors are guided by schemas of the caregiving role, their functioning in that role, what children need in general, and what their own children are like in particular. Sometimes, however, parenting schemas can be maladaptive because they are too rigid or simple,...