Sentence examples for sole parent from inspiring English sources
In this house he is the commander and sole parent.
Mr. Martin intends to be the sole parent, his publicist, John Reilly, said.
For Mrs. Jordan, the role of the sole parent is not unfamiliar.
Using Acoss figures on family type, sole parent families have the highest poverty rates at 32%.
He was now the sole parent of a son and three daughters, one with Down syndrome.
Nearly 18% of children live beneath the poverty line, one-third of them in sole-parent families, Acoss found.
Morrison and Porter could have, for example, trimmed the childcare spending itself, so that they reduced the amount they needed to cut from the income of the lowest-income sole-parent families or from the income of grandparents trying to raise a second generation of children.
This led to a shift in focus for activation measures to be extended to recipients of other inactive benefits, namely IB and sole-parent benefits.
They also argued the case for extending the remit of activation strategies, suitably modified, to other working-age recipients of a range of inactivity benefits such as disability/long-term sickness, early retirement, and sole-parent or social assistance benefits.
There is also the fact that activation regimes have proved to be most effective for UI benefit recipients and also for recipients of sole-parent benefits when assistance is provided for child care.
