If you look up "parenting" in Webster's Dictionary, why isn't anything there?

If you look up "parenting" in Webster's Dictionary, why isn't anything there?!!? Does Webster's deny that there is such a thing as parenting or was it just an oversight?!!?If you look up "parenting" in Webster's Dictionary, why isn't anything there?
My 1994 copy of Merriam Webster's Dictionary certainly does list "parenting" as the raising of a child by its parent.



Sorry... the online dictionary also has it:



http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionar鈥?/a>
Because the root word is "Parent", and yes...before you go looking, it's there.

EDIT: Challenge accepted, sucka!

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionar鈥?/a>

Now give me my 10 pts. :opIf you look up "parenting" in Webster's Dictionary, why isn't anything there?
Because it's not a word. You can only add an "ing" to the end of verbs. "Parent" is a noun. However, people still use it for lack of a better term.If you look up "parenting" in Webster's Dictionary, why isn't anything there?
Because parenting is not actually a verb. It's used as a verb but it comes from the noun parent. If you want a definition: to raise a child.
parent is a noun. parenting isn't in the dictionary just like computering and xboxing useless verbs.
You should put parent only.