Parent may refer to:
Parent is also the name of some people:
Parenting, comprising all the tasks involved in raising a child to an independent adult. Types of parents include:

• Foster parent, an adult guardian to whom one or more children have been legally entrusted.
  Godparent, in Christianity, someone who sponsors a child's baptism.
  Helicopter parent, one who pays extremely close attention to their child or children, particularly at educational institutions.
  Single parent, a parent with one or more children, who is neither married, nor living together with his or her partner.
  Parenting, a magazine providing advice to parents, published in the United States.
  Parents (magazine), another magazine
  Parent Bug, Elasmucha grisea, a shield bug (a type of insect characterized by its shield-shaped body).
  Parent chain, in organic chemistry, is the longest continuous chain of connected carbon atoms in a hydrocarbon.
  Parent company or holding company, a company that owns enough voting stock in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors.
  Parent material, in soil science, means the underlying bedrock from which soil horizons form.
  Parent node (or ancestor node), a node in a tree data structure that links to one or more child nodes.
  Parent process, a computer process that has created one or more child processes.
  Parent regiment, a type of army regimental system.
  The Parent Trap, a 1961 film and its 1998 remake.
  Parents, a 1989 horror film.
  Parent, a commune of the Puy-de-Dôme département, in France
  Alphonse-Marie Parent (1906–1970), a Canadian priest and administrator.
  Bernie Parent (born 1945), a Canadian professional ice hockey player.
  Gilbert Parent (born 1935), a Canadian Member of Parliament.
  Maury Parent (died 2004), an American radio personality.
  Mimi Parent (1924–2005), a Canadian surrealist artist.
  Simon-Napoléon Parent (1855–1920), a Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec.
  Steven Parent (1951–1969), a victim of the Charles Manson murders.