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The phrase "a single parent house" is not standard in written English; it may be intended to convey a household led by a single parent, but it is awkwardly phrased.
You can use it when discussing living situations or family structures, but it would be clearer to rephrase it.
Example: "Growing up in a single parent house, I learned to be independent at an early age."
Alternatives: "single-parent household" or "single-parent family".
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"The story is that a black kid from a single parent house made it from [the Marcy Projects] from about six minutes away from here.
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He owes his status as leadership contender to his personal biography; growing up in a single parent household in a council house in Wales is a handy political asset in any political party nowadays.
The household cap is not tapered by number of children in the family, so a family of five will be capped at the same rate as a single parent family, if their benefits and housing benefit reach the cap.
A single parent family is hard.
(Raised in a single-parent home, in a housing project; summa cum laude at Princeton Yale Law Schooll; prosecutor under Robert Morgenthau).
Mr Straw is famous for having grown up in a single-parent family on a housing estate, and for remaining close to the everyday worries of his Blackburn constituents.
On the fringes of town, a group of men in their early 20s have begun building a sustainable house for a single-parent family of nine.
She is a single parent, dependent on housing benefit, when she would prefer not to have to rely on the taxpayer.
Ashley came from a single-parent family.
Carrozzini grew up in a single-parent household in which the single parent was frequently away.
I was raised in a single-parent family.
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