The phrase "a single parent working" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an individual who is a single parent and is currently employed.
Example: "Being a single parent working full-time can be quite challenging, but it also has its rewards."
Alternatives: "a working single parent" or "a single working parent".
A single parent working full-time on the minimum wage and receiving no help with housing costs would lose £50 a week, it calculates.
WilsonThere's also a four-week program to get families started, which includes helping them overcome obstacles to eating together such as too many activities, not feeling comfortable in the kitchen, or a single parent working two jobs.
Under the 2009 law, a family with two children and a single parent working full time at the minimum wage qualifies for annual child tax credits of $1,725.
A single parent working to raise children alone is not able to run between kids, parents and job with ease.
Today, a single parent working full time at the federal minimum wage rate earns $15,080 a year, a level that is well below the official poverty line of $16,057.
You've probably experienced such a shift in perspective unintentionally, for example, when you learn that an irritating coworker is a single parent working two part-time jobs to support her two children, one of whom has cancer.
Ms. Thorogood grew up in East Hampton and Montauk on Long Island, where her mother, a single parent, worked as a cocktail waitress at an East End inn.
His mother, a Cuban refugee and a single parent, worked double-shifts as a maid and restaurant hostess to support the family.
In another story, a single parent works so hard on a soybean farm that he goes long stretches at a time without seeing his children; nonetheless, when his crop fails, he is indicted for antirevolutionary crimes.
It was where their mother, a single parent, worked as a registered nurse and political organizer.
It is easy for a parent, spouse or sibling to blame themselves because they were a single parent, worked two jobs, paid more attention to another sibling because of physical or mental disabilities -- or the opposite, by excelling in intelligence or sports that would carve up more time to them then to the other sibling.
