These are real words from biology, but, given their dismal # of Google hits, they need to be popularized.
An alloparent is an animal that serves as 'caretaker' for young that are not its own offspring. The term could be extended, in obvious ways, to overburdened professional couples' nannies who are, well, more than just nannies.
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Disagree! Nannies are NOT the same as a relative, an aunt or uncle, grandmother or grandfather, a blood relation, and no measure of political correctness is going to excuse whatever harm befalls those societies, ours undoubtedly chief among them, which indiscriminately farm out so many of their children to near strangers. I will not have the depth of my love and devotion likened to a contractual agreement with a strange person, a mere business transaction.
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