one-parent family

British  

noun

1. a household consisting of at least one dependent child and the mother or father, the other parent being dead or permanently absent

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Example Sentences

The average Child Care Assistance child is under 5, has one sibling and lives in a one-parent family where the parent works.

From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2019

Adrian Chiles tells the story of how a boy from a poor one-parent family ended up refereeing matches with a yellow card his idol used in the World Cup final.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2018

Dowdy said that he’d grown up in a one-parent family, and he didn’t want his men’s children to lose their fathers for no good reason.

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017

Then there’s his improbable background: a child from a poor one-parent family in South Shields on Tyneside who went from doing kitsch turns in working men’s clubs to become an internationally feted classical dancer.

From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2016

A one-parent family with the same income as a two-parent family is probably spending a lot more of its spare cash on child care.

From Economist • May 7, 2015