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Single Parent
Parent who is responsible for raising children alone. Of single parents, 80–90 % are women. Some women choose to have children on their own but the majority become single parents after separation or the death of their partner.
Numbers, UK and USA
In the UK, single-parent families increased from 8% of families in 1971 to 21% in 1992. Between 1970 and 1995, the number of single parents in the USA doubled. One in three households in the USA (14.9 million, 1995) is headed by a single parent; together these parents care for over 16 million children, or 40% of the children in the country.
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