A person bringing up a child or children without a partner.
many lone parents are put off employment because they cannot find childcare
Example sentencesExamples
- Groups such as lone parents are being excluded from reentering the labour market and from educational opportunities.
- She was living in public housing, separated from her husband and living on a lone parent allowance.
- The great majority of lone parents were women.
- We would have a lot of lone parents who may not be able to take up education because they are not being paid.
- Lone parents have been let down and left out of pocket.
- They are hosting an exciting new programme, designed specifically for independent or lone parents.
- We now have two different systems that don't work properly and thousands of lone parents missing out.
- The proportion of lone-parent households with dependent children almost doubled, now accounting for five per cent of households.
- Being a lone parent with a child and combining that with a job is a major stressor.
- No matter where I go, when I ask lone parents what is the biggest issue, invariably they say childcare.