Single-parent

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Single-parent is a parent who cares for one or more children without the physical assistance of the other parent in the home. "Single Parenthood" may vary according to the local laws of different nations or regions. Single parenthood may occur for a variety of reasons. A few possible scenerios are by choice, as in divorce, adoption, artificial insemination, surrogate motherhood, while others are the result of an unforeseeable occurrence, such as a death, child abuse, child neglect, or abandonment by biological parents. The living and parenting arrangements for single parents are diverse. A number live in households with family, other adults or alone in home, apt, condos or government assisted housing. When parents separate, one party usually the primary parent has the children the majority of the time but secondary parents continue to share some type of parenting time and responsibility, to some extent, with their child.