A natural, adoptive, or substitute parent of a dependent child, who lives with only one parent. The single parent may live with or visit the child. The concept includes the never-married, as well as the divorced and widowed.
Synonyms: Single Stepparent, Parents, Single, Single Step Parent, Single Stepparents, Single Step-Parent, Stepparent, Single, Parent, Single, Single Parent, Step-Parent, Single, Step-Parents, Single, Single Step-Parents, Stepparents, Single, Single Parents
Instance information
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89 ,never-married, divorced or widowed: read MeSH definition
identifier
D015406