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parentism: an example

What is par­en­tism? Par­en­tism is a less dis­cussed cousin of racism, sex­ism and clas­sism. On my inter­pre­ta­tion, par­en­tism con­sists in dis­crim­i­nat­ing against peo­ple on account of their parental sta­tus, or in indi­vid­ual actions and atti­tudes or insti­tu­tional arrange­ments that favor per­sons of a par­tic­u­lar parental sta­tus unjustly. While surely there are cases wherein peo­ple are