| The challenges and barriers people face are multiplied in a single-parent family situation. |
| I grew up in a single-parent family, and my mother's very liberal. |
| The strongest single explanatory factors were parental divorce and in men, living in a single-parent family in childhood. |
| She said the 16-year-old was a bright student, but from a poor single-parent family. |
| Mills grew up on a council estate in Bow, east London, an only child in a single-parent family. |
| Young women who have children out of wedlock are much less likely to marry as they age and much more likely to bring up their children in a single-parent family. |
