lone parent

lone parent
   a parent living alone with dependent offspring
   Usually an unmarried mother or a parent whose spouse lives apart through divorce or other separation, without any suggestion that the child has other than two progenitors:
    The main reason given by divorced loneparents for marital breakdown was infidelity. (Bath Report, June 1991)
   See also one-parent family and single parent.

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