I am trying to search by elementNode. I don’t have class or id.

var searchNode =

<div>
                  <header></header>
            </div>;

var **parentNode **=

<div class="parent">
                     ..........
                     <div>
                       <header></header>
                     </div>
                 </div>;

I am trying like
$(parentNode).remove($(searchNode)) which is not working.

Can someone help me how to remove the searchNode from parentNode.