A single parent or part of a couple?
Thus the airline industry was split into three companies from a single parent, and part of the 3G market was set aside for the lesser cell phone players, China Unicom and China Telecom.
Every parent struggles with it, whether you're a single parent or part of a parenting couple.
Thanks to the Great Recession, nontraditional students those who are over 25, fully independent, a single parent, enrolled part-time, or without a high school diploma now outnumber traditional students.
Children born to parents living in a couple are better off than children of single parents, in part because they grow up with more of a father's presence in their lives (see Mincy and Oliver [2003]).
His interest in fashion was passed down from his mother, a single parent who spent part of Gidley's youth as an accessories buyer for a clothing company near Dallas.
The dirty boxer shorts that mysteriously land on my side of the bed (have I turned into a man?) or the fact that I am still living, albeit temporarily, as a single parent with a part-time husband?
Fiona Weir, head of the single-parent charity Gingerbread, said it was alarming to see one in three children with a single parent who worked part-time was living below the poverty line.
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.
He used almost all his savings to pay the mortgage and care for his own three children as a single parent while picking up part-time work.
