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Health | A natural, adoptive, or substitute parent of a dependent child, who lives with only one parent. The single parent may live with or visit the child. The concept includes the never-married, as well as the divorced and widowed. (references) |
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A single parent is a parent with one or more children, who is neither married, nor living together with his or her partners. Single mothers are far more common than single fathers. The definition of single parents may vary according to local laws of nations or provinces. But in typical cases, she or he may be so after divorce, after giving birth to a child outside marriage, or after his or her spouse died.
Some single mothers may have chosen to be so voluntarily but for some others it is the result of accidental pregnancy, while not wanting or not having the opportunity for abortion, and not wanting or not having the opportunity for marrying or living together. Financial problems or other social circumstances often play a role. Especially in the US, teenage single mothers have become a serious social issue (see also teenage pregnancy).
This phenomenon has become one of the serious social issues in advanced countries. A single father is less common because many single parenthoods are caused by pregnancies after which the father deserted the mother, and because after divorce, more often the woman gets custody of the children, and in the case the mother has no (longer) a relationship with the father, it is even more likely that the child will stay with the mother; the father may even be out of view. A single father is considered much less commonly a social issue and gets far less support from governments. The typical case of a man turning into a single father probably entails that his wife died or disappeared in other ways.
Sometimes, when a woman is pregnant, she and the father of the child feel the need to marry, or to marry earlier than planned, to avoid the shame and the legal complications of being a single mother. This is sometimes referred to as a "forced marriage". It has become more common in Japan and the United States because couples over there usually feel they have little reason to get married.
Single mothers in fiction
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Crosswords: SINGLE PARENT |
| English words defined with "SINGLE PARENT": colony. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SINGLE PARENT": Reference person ♦ vegetative propagation. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sex and the Single Parent (1979) | |
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Health | Make a special effort to find private times to communicate with your spouse, or if you are a single parent, with others close to you. Don't allow all your discussions to revolve around the sick child. (references) | |
Women | Andorra | The AAW actively promoted women's issues through information exchanges and limited direct support to those in need; the AAW collaborates with the Department of Public Health and Social Welfare to help battered women, single parent families, and others in need. (references) |
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Rosie O'Donnell | I was raised by a single parent, my dad. My mom died when I was a kid. So I never really thought of it as an odd thing. |
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Expression using "SINGLE PARENT": single parent families. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "SINGLE PARENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عاش مع احد الوالدين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | enlige forældre (one-parent family, single parent family), alene- (one-parent family, single parent family). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onvolledige gezinnen (single parent families, single-parent families), eenoudergezin (one-parent family, single parent family), alleenstaande ouder (one-parent family, single parent family). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | foyer monoparental (single parent family), familles uniparentales (single parent families, single-parent families), famille monoparentale (single-parent family), famille parent isolé (single parent family). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Einelternfamilie (one-parent family, single parent family), alleinerziehender Elternteil (one-parent family, single parent family), Alleinerziehende (single parent families, single-parent families). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μονογονεϊκή οικογένεια (one-parent family, single parent family). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | ragazzo padre, ragazza madre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inglesay arentpay família monoparental (one-parent family, single parent family). (various references) monoparental. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-p-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: argentines, eglantines, entanglers, generalist, parentings, pentangles, perennials, plastering, pregenital, presenting, repaneling, replanting, septennial, tangerines. | |
-3 letters: agentries, algerines, anglesite, antigenes, antisleep, aperients, argentine, eglantine, elaterins, entailers, entangler, entangles, galenites, gannister, gantlines, gelatines, gnarliest, graplines, gratinees, inelegant, integrals, interlaps, internals, lannerets, learnings, nearliest, paltering, panelings, parenting, pearliest, pearlites, peltering, penalties, pentangle, perennial, pestering, pistareen. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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