What's the difference between motherless and parentless?
Motherless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
Example Sentences:
(1) In passing this law, these patriarchs have fathered millions of unwanted children, helping to create lives that could very well turn out to be painful and potentially motherless.
(2) The breast-fed group was housed in a gang cage with nursing mothers (n = 13) and the other motherless group was in a wire-cage nursery habitat (n = 20).
(3) Maternal deaths accounted for 40-50% of all deaths in the central ages of reproduction, leaving the motherless children with a highly increased death risk.
(4) She had an abortion because she wasn’t willing to risk her life and leave her child motherless, but she still feels a deep sadness.
(5) The vast majority of these motherless youth will come from poor communities of color.
(6) These losses are important because they happen to younger women and leave motherless families and because they are largely preventable.
(7) The children who have ever lived in one-parent families are selected for more detailed examination, such as the reasons for their parental situation, the age their families broke up and the ratio of motherless to fatherless at each age.
(8) With each failed IVF cycle, the possibility of taking a motherless route started to take shape in my mind.
(9) The difference in mortality was larger when high risk groups (twins, motherless children) were excluded from the analysis (P less than 0.01).
(10) A mathematical model was constructed to estimate the number of such motherless youth.
Parentless
Definition:
(a.) Deprived of parents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Klebsiella pneumoniae Mir M7 is a spontaneous parentless morphology mutant which grows as cocci at pH 7 and as rods at pH 5.8.
(2) She also took with us a four-year-old boy who was parentless and she spent months searching for his relatives, who she did finally track down.
(3) We would, then, have to fend for ourselves, and I imagined a parentless pack of us unwanted mongrels, hunting for food in the nearby woods.
(4) Crook said that the separation of 17,000 children from their mothers was causing long-term emotional, social, material and psychological damage with little or no dedicated support: "If a single mother is sent to prison she will, at least temporarily, lose her children and children become effectively parentless," she said.