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* '''Parents'''. Parents are people who have had a child together, regardless of the nature of their relationship with each other. Parents can be married spouses, unmarried spouses, in a dating relationship, or not in a relationship with each other at all. Parents can also have had a child by adoption or assisted reproduction. Or they might have helped a family to have a child by assisted reproduction, by donating eggs or sperm, or by being a surrogate mother. | * '''Parents'''. Parents are people who have had a child together, regardless of the nature of their relationship with each other. Parents can be married spouses, unmarried spouses, in a dating relationship, or not in a relationship with each other at all. Parents can also have had a child by adoption or assisted reproduction. Or they might have helped a family to have a child by assisted reproduction, by donating eggs or sperm, or by being a surrogate mother. | ||
* '''Child’s caregivers'''. People who have a significant role in a child’s life but aren’t the child’s parents. | * '''Child’s caregivers'''. People who have a significant role in a child’s life but aren’t the child’s parents. | ||
===Family law legislation=== | ===Family law legislation=== | ||
