21.   The Childs were surrogate parents for the Pratt children, she says.

22.   The idea of Operation Migration was that young geese and swans could learn a migration route by following a surrogate parent, Lishman in his ultralight aircraft.

23.   The instrument then passes through the hands of several owners who treat it, alternately, as a muse, a surrogate parent and a symbol of cultural depravity.

24.   The legacy continued beyond slavery as older adults became surrogate parents to children whose parents left home seeking prosperity in the big cities.

25.   The testimonials came not only from artists but from others in the theater who came to think of Jacobs as a surrogate parent.

26.   The two become surrogate parents of sorts.

27.   They gradually earn her trust, make headway communicating with her and are clearly elated that she comes to consider them surrogate parents.

28.   Tim Curry plays Mr. French in this revival of the story about an English butler and a Manhattan bachelor who become surrogate parents to three kids.

29.   We simply feel like surrogate parents until Leah and Willie are old enough to step in and take over.

30.   Beasley met Wheeler and Berman a year ago on a Web site for surrogate parents.