lone mother/father/parent etc

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishlone mother/father/parent etclone mother/father/parent etcBritish EnglishONLY someone who looks after their children on their own SYN single a lone-parent family → loneExamples from the Corpuslone mother/father/parent etc• One Parent Benefit is paid to 75% of lone parents.• We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort - as we do now.• Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.• Sheila is a lone parent with two children, aged 13 and 15.• More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.

单词	lone mother/father/parent etc
释义	lone mother/father/parent etc From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishlone mother/father/parent etclone mother/father/parent etcBritish EnglishONLY someone who looks after their children on their own SYN single a lone-parent family → loneExamples from the Corpuslone mother/father/parent etc• One Parent Benefit is paid to 75% of lone parents.• We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort - as we do now.• Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.• Sheila is a lone parent with two children, aged 13 and 15.• More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.
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