A person bringing up a child or children alone; a single parent.
the people who get the rawest deal in the benefit world are solo parents
as modifier my mother was brought up in a solo parent family with seven little children
Example sentencesExamples
- She says solo parent families are as good as traditional families.
- I seem to be the only solo parent in this suburb of shiny, happy people.
- Politicians are already playing on the widespread hostility towards solo parents.
- Thousands of solo parents on benefits must from today look for employment.
- Child poverty is concentrated in predominantly solo parent households, where women struggle to pay the bills.
- And regularly she gets families playing games together and does things like making solo parents finding time to spend alone with each kid.
- There will be marriage break-ups, more solo parents, more kids in crime.
- They don't care if its effective in improving the lot of solo parents, or beneficiaries generally.
- He is attacking this bill for not supporting solo parents.
- People talk about solo parents and dole bludgers as if we were scum.