Georgia Code Title 49. Social Services § 49-1-8

(1) “Basic necessities” means water, electricity, gas, power, light, heat, telephone, or other public utility services.

(2) “Child” means any person under 18 years of age.

(3) “Kinship caregiver” means a grandparent, aunt, uncle, great aunt, great uncle, cousin, sibling, or close family friend of a child who has assumed responsibility for raising such child in an informal, noncustodial, or guardianship capacity upon the parents of such child losing or abdicating the ability to care for or provide basic necessities for such child.

(4) “Parents” means the legal father and the legal mother of a child.