co-parent

• co- +‎ parent

co-parent (plural co-parents)

1. Someone who shares in the parenting of a child or children, such as:
   • 2006, Richard S. Kitchen, Sylvia Celedon-pattichis, Julie Depree, Jonathan Brinkerhoff, Mathematics education at highly effective schools that serve the poor, page 144:

     teacher's roles need to be as co-parents

   1. A godparent.
   2. A divorced or separated parent who shares custody with the other parent.
   3. A parent in a same-sex couple.

• co-parent-in-law (parents who are related through their married children)
• co-mother, co-father, godparent

co-parent (third-person singular simple present co-parents, present participle co-parenting, simple past and past participle co-parented)

1. To act as a co-parent; to share custody of a child or children; to share in the responsibility of parenting a child or children.

• Caperton, portance, rent-a-cop