"guideparent" meaning in English

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          "text": "The guideparents were very nervous during the naming ceremony.",
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          "ref": "2018, Peter McGuire, “‘We’d be hypocritical standing in a church promising to raise our kids as Catholics’”, in The Irish Times:",
          "text": "There’s a section where the guideparents and parents make their pledges to the child, usually promising to be there unconditionally and to support them always.",
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          "ref": "2019, Richard Godwin, “'It locks you into a disintegrating friendship for life': the new rules of godparenting”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Our experience is that almost all humanist naming ceremonies have guideparents involved.",
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          "ref": "2020, Joanna Wojtkowiak, University of Humanistic Studies, Ritualizing Pregnancy and Childbirth in Secular Societies: Exploring Embodied Spirituality at the Start of Life:",
          "text": "Becoming a guideparent gives the person a special role in the baby’s life.",
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        "A person who, at a child's naming ceremony, agrees to help raise the child (especially in a non-religious setting)"
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