Abstract is: A single parent is a person who has a child or children but does not have a spouse or live-in partner to assist in the upbringing or support of the child. Reasons for becoming a single parent include divorce, break-up, abandonment, becoming widowed, domestic violence, rape, childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption. A single parent family is a family with children that is headed by a single parent.
| parent | Q7566 |
| single person | Q908826 |
| ??? | Q124417214 |
| P1889 | different from | single-parent family | Q66363400 |
| ??? | Q124417214 | ||
| P828 | has cause | divorce | Q93190 |
| domestic violence | Q156537 | ||
| rape | Q47092 | ||
| adoption | Q180472 | ||
| abandonment | Q305418 | ||
| single person | Q908826 | ||
| legal separation | Q1142948 | ||
| death of subject's partner | Q90110620 | ||
| breakup | Q100926628 | ||
| death of subject's spouse | Q24037741 | ||
| P527 | has part(s) | single mother | Q20987265 |
| P461 | opposite of | coparenting | Q2996729 |
| P361 | part of | single-parent family | Q66363400 |