single parent

noun

a parent or guardian who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner:
Being a single parent isn’t easy.

single-parent

[ sing-guhl-pair-uhnt, ‐-par-uhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent household.
a single-parent family;
a single-parent household.

single parent

Also called (NZ)solo parent
1. a person who has a dependent child or dependent children and who is widowed, divorced, or unmarried
2. ( as modifier )
  a single-parent family

First recorded in 1850–60

First recorded in 1965–70

If I could have every single parent in the United States watch this program, I would.

Those words might not sit well with single parent and divorced Catholics, and groups supporting non-traditional families.

Single-parent, same-sex, and common-law families barely penetrated public consciousness, much less the Hebrew lexicon.

The fact that the new president of the United States was the product of a single-parent home was cited by both sides.

So the chances of me being a married "single" parent are very, very high—and I don't want to be a single parent.

Ultimately “Delbrck went so far,” says Professor Ripley, “as to deny that any single parent language ever existed in fact”.

Once isolated, such single-parent races are constant from seed and remain true to their type.

Its care, its nurture, its education is too important even to be risked with a single parent.

Every Alcyonarian colony is developed by budding from a single parent zooid.

In a world of choice and free movement, children are more likely to come from families that will consist of a single parent.

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