Single parent
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"Single Parents" redirects here. For the ABC television series, see Single Parents (TV series).
"Single father" and "Single mother" redirect here. For other uses, see Single Father (disambiguation) and Single Mother (disambiguation).
"Motherless" redirects here. For other uses, see Motherless (disambiguation).
A single parent is a person who has a child or children but does not have a spouse or live-in partner to assist in the upbringing or support of the child. Reasons for becoming a single parent include decease, divorce, break-up, abandonment, becoming widowed, domestic violence, rape, childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption. A single parent family is a family with children that is headed by a single parent.[1][2][3][4]