Sentence examples for been a single parent from inspiring English sources
If I had been a single parent as a nurse, how much could I have actually done?
She said she had been a single parent since her husband was killed in a car crash 10 years ago.
"Here I am, I've worked hard all my life, put myself through college, raised three kids, been a single parent at different times in my life.
I've been a single parent for 12 years, and their father does not keep in touch with them, but we started from the beginning to tell each other that we would do this together, and we did.
As a divorced heterosexual man who was reared by a black nanny and has been a single parent, I am convinced that consistency, not gender, is the key to parenting; it is what allows the child to form strong attachments to the world and to grow secure in himself.
Re "So Where Are the Corporate Husbands?" (June 24), which discussed how many executive women cannot count on their husbands to perform the traditional social roles of a corporate spouse: Having been a single parent for 15 years, I can attest to the fact that my assistant and now my daughters have provided the support typically attributed to the spouse of an executive.
"I'm a single parent," she said.
"I'm a single parent and that is frowned upon.
