parent
Let an agent handle parenthood by type, rights and responsibilities in general terms, find parenting support, and route child safety concerns to protection services first.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Safety Child protection.
Risk
Child at risk.
Risk
Child at risk.
- Is a child at risk of harm? boundary
- Which child protection service or emergency number applies? action
Overwhelmed
Parent in crisis.
Overwhelmed
Parent in crisis.
- Is the parent struggling or in crisis? boundary
- Which parenting helplines or crisis lines exist here? provenance
Support Services.
Parenting
Advice services.
Parenting
Parenting support.
- Which parenting advice services exist here? provenance
- Are there services for single or disabled parents? provenance
Entitlements
Leave and benefits.
Entitlements
Entitlements.
- What parental leave and benefits apply, according to official sources? provenance
- How can they be claimed? action
Law Responsibility.
Responsibility
Legal status.
Responsibility
Parental responsibility.
- Who has parental responsibility here, in general terms? provenance
- How is it obtained? provenance
Advice
Family law help.
Advice
Advice limit.
- Is the user asking about their own custody or contact case? boundary
- How can they find family mediation or legal aid? action
Families Diversity.
Forms
Family forms.
Forms
Family forms.
- Is the language inclusive of different family forms? boundary
- Which term does the family use? provenance
Senses
Disambiguation.
Senses
Other senses.
- Is a parent organism or parent company meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Other names and narrower kinds
- parent with disabilities, single parent, teenage parent, great-great-great-great-grandparent, biological parent, single father by choice, Single parents in the United States, legal parent, 4th great-grandmother, genetic parent, adoptive parent, adoptive mother
What it is Filled
A progenitor or caregiver of offspring of its own species, including human and nonhuman parents; the parent relation is the inverse of the offspring relation represented by property P40. Human parenthood includes biological, adoptive, step, foster and legal parents, single parents and parents with disabilities; human parental roles and rights vary by law and culture.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle parenthood by type, rights and responsibilities in general terms, find parenting support, and route child safety concerns to protection services first.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Cares for and is responsible for a child
- Many family forms
- Rights and duties in law
- Supported by services
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Help one parent covertly track or monitor the other parent or the child in breach of the law or a court order.
- Disclose a child's or parent's personal data to third parties without consent.
- Judge a person's fitness as a parent from their disability, gender, family form or background.
- Override a court order on custody or contact.
Only with a human decision
- Reporting a concern that a child may be at risk.
- Acting on a custody, adoption or guardianship decision.
May
- Give parents general, sourced information on child development, health and services.
- Help a parent organise schedules, records and appointments they choose to share.
Moral aspects Filled
- Parents hold responsibility for children who cannot yet speak for themselves.
- Family forms vary and none should be treated as lesser.
Who is affected
- Children
- Parents and carers
- Other family members
Owners Filled
Steward
The parent or legal guardian; civil registries and courts record legal parenthood.
Master systems
- Civil birth and adoption registers
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q138716795 - registry parent class
- Q25098571 - registry parent class
related
- first-degree relative - category
- child - relation
- family law - law
- parent (organism) - biological sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.parent
- Wikidata: Q7566 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7566)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Parents include progenitors or caregivers of offspring of their own species in both humans and nonhuman organisms.
- Human parents include biological, adoptive, step and foster parents.
- Legal parental responsibility is relevant to human family contexts.
- Not physical; a role and relationship.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- find parenting support and advice services
- explain parental responsibility in general terms
- find benefits and leave entitlements
- route child protection concerns
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Missing child safety concerns
- Agents giving legal advice on custody
- Judging family forms
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- National family law
- Parental leave law
Context of use required Filled
- Raising and caring for children.
- biological parents
- adoptive and foster parents
- step-parents
- single parents
- parents with disabilities
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q7566: parent - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Parent - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should parent types be separate entries?
- How should support services be localised?
- How should legal concepts be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q7566/spec.json