11.   He moved them from Stockton, Calif., to his home in Dallas and became their surrogate parent.

12.   His roommate became a surrogate parent, worrying each night how he would cope if Travis had a heart attack and forbidding him each day from playing.

13.   His surrogate parents included an elderly German woman, a kind fifth-grade teacher and his adult stepsister.

14.   In most rural areas, theater owners tend their doors like surrogate parents.

15.   In towns big and small, high school coaches serve as surrogate parents, school administrators, community political leaders and fund-raisers.

16.   Like tiny ripples on a pond, her face registers the concerns of a caring surrogate parent committed to practicing an austere form of tough love.

17.   Some grandparents find themselves in the role of surrogate parents.

18.   Staff served as surrogate parents.

19.   Surrogate parents, Erskine said, should undergo the same extensive scrutiny that the state requires of prospective adoptive parents, she said.

20.   The Actimate is programmed to act like a surrogate parent.