parent

A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).

After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.

my trust / Like a good parent, did beget of him / A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great / As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, / A confidence sans bound.

A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.

A surrogate parent.

A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.

A relative.

To act as parent, to raise or rear.

However, even with money and caregivers, the child is left without a parent and most likely without a plan for their emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being. A time will come when you will no longer be able to parent your child, period.

To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.

A surname.