parentage

Example Sentences

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Viewers eventually learn Sophie’s servitude is forced after her parentage is revealed — she’s the illegitimate daughter of an earl.

From Los Angeles Times

The judge denied his request for parentage—normally quickly approved for the intended parents of a baby born through surrogacy, experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal

However the rules meant that despite their parentage they had to serve a four-year qualification period.

From BBC

The judge ordered that baby Eleanor be placed for adoption, and also made a "declaration of non parentage".

From BBC

And although she didn’t know it, Estelle was misled about her parentage — her elder sister was actually her mother; the mother who raised them both was her grandmother.

From Los Angeles Times