single parent

single parent (plural single parents)

1. A parent who is the only guardian of offspring.

• sole provider

• single father
• single mother

single parent (third-person singular simple present single parents, present participle single parenting, simple past and past participle single parented)

1. To act as the only guardian of offspring.
   • 2008, Deanna Davis, The Law of Attraction in Action, →ISBN, page 6:

     My husband would, no doubt, be the slightest bit fatigued from having single-parented a precocious preschooler 24/7 for a week.

   • 2009, Samuel D. G. Heath, The American Poet: Weedpatch Gazette for 1997, →ISBN, page 286:

     My degrees and credentials are largely oriented to working with children and young adults in many different capacities. And I've single parented.

   • 2013, J. W. Wiley, The Nigger in You, →ISBN:

     I was single parenting and imagined that if this man and I argued or fought there would be a good chance he would be believed, not me.