True enough Greg, but you can be brought up by lots of other people who aren't your parents. Nurture is another word meaning the same thing, and a better one, I'd say.

But I can't actually see anyway in which a frozen metaphor like "brought up" - which after all sounds like what you do when you've eaten something unpleasant - is a better way of saying it than "parent". Language changes, and sometime the changes aren't for the worse.