Who deserves the title ‘parent’

[DYOR+BTC]

Before going to find who is supposed to be called parents we should look at the primary functions of parents,  to me i see parents as anyone willing to provide the desired need of someone.  Therefore in life anyone willing to provide this needs of life is referred to as once parents.  The need in question is not only financial needs but that which is desired to have a better future. Some go astray today not because they lack financial support but because they lack people to administer the main functions of parents in there lifes.

[Marykeller]

I think this is very wrong for parents to leave and abandon their children at an early stage of their age, only for them to appear when the child has grown up under the care of another parent who took care of them from when they were little to the time they become mature.

A parent who doesn't support their child when the child is growing up shouldn't appear to act as if they are the father or mother of the child because everyone has taken the same action on the abandoned child, would they still come around to claim to be the father or mother of that child as they have grown without anyone's care? I feel this is very wrong to appear because the child who was abandoned has grown to be successful