parentage
Example Sentences
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Chelsey Calhoun, the investigating police detective, is also of Japanese descent, though she was adopted and knows nothing of her true parentage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
In its place, the Reconstruction Congress adopted the broad view of citizenship based on the place of birth, not parentage, that had been part of English law for centuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
One of the oldest laws of parentage is the “marital presumption,” which automatically establishes a birth mother’s husband as the presumptive legal father, even if he is not a biological parent.
From Slate ● May 13, 2026
For Chloe, Silvia and Fausto, that decision also meant weighing which of them would get access to paid family leave — something California law guarantees only to workers with documented proof of parentage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
What purpose I had in view when I was hot on tracing out and proving Estella’s parentage, I cannot say.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
