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Multi-parenthood (plural parenting): having multiple parents. Also known as polyparental, multi-naternity and pluriparental.

Since the norm is pericisheterobiobiparental (bioparental biparent: two  biological parents; pericisheteroparental: cis perisex parents with dissimilar binary genders), multiparent is proudful because it includes socio-affective filiations (stepfamilies), rainbow families (homoparental, transparental, LGBT+/queer parenting) and parental communities (whose parents aren’t fixed / pre-defined or familial polyamory for example).

This extends intersectionally to automonoparental people (interparental, having an extraparent and intraparent, you and someone other than you parenting yourself) and theoparental (parented by God(s) / deities) ~ ap