single parents
- plural of single parent.
Example Sentences
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Panel head Deputy Louise Doublet said that, while the review highlighted many positives, it revealed that single-parents were "structurally disadvantaged" by the current system.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026
“There are different families depicted — single-parents families, families with no money, same-sex families,” she said.
From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2019
In Cusk’s reading of the Oresteia, Clytemnestra is the original working mother; she has to run the kingdom while Agamemnon fights the Trojan War, as she single-parents her son Orestes and her daughter Electra.
From Slate • Aug. 4, 2012
