Sentence examples for half of single from inspiring English sources

(Half of single parents worked under the new welfare program, compared with 37percentt under the old program).

In Britain, for example, where child-care costs are over double the OECD average, less than half of single parents are employed.

Almost half of single parents in the UK have been forced to borrow money from family, friends or lenders to pay for childcare costs over the past two years, according to a study by the charity Gingerbread.

She pointed out that less than half of single mothers receive any maintenance payment from the absent parent, and that the legal costs of chasing payments too prohibitive for many.

The fact that more than half of single dads – and there are more than a million of them – don't maintain regular contact with their children after divorce or separation may as often as not be out of negotiating impossible hurdles rather than tardiness on their part.

At the same time, Britain has one of the lowest employment rates for single parents among developed countries: Less than half of single parents have paid jobs, compared with the O.E.C.D. average of more than 70 percent, according to a report by the organization in April; only in Turkey do a smaller proportion work.

The starkness of the categories -- married parent or single parent -- fails to reflect a complicated reality: over the last few years family scholars have learned that many -- perhaps half -- of single women who give birth are living with the baby's father.

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Only 4percentt blame politicians the most for the state's woes, and only half of them single out Governor McGreevey.

More than half of the single adults said they had gotten treatment for drug and alcohol use in the past.

So why are so many (almost half of all single people) choosing a form of dating they know relies upon a certain level of deception?