
thumb|upright=1.5|Vervet monkey with young in Tanzania
thumb|upright=1.5|Vervet monkey with young in Tanzania
Alloparenting (or alloparental care) is a term for any form of parental care provided by an individual towards young that are not its own direct offspring. These are often called "non-descendant" young, even though grandchildren can be among them. Among humans, alloparenting is often performed by a child's grandparents and older siblings. Individuals providing this care are called by the neutral term "alloparent" (or "helper").
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).