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.
    

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Children of scorn and medical papers / by Lady Cook (née Tennessee Claflin).

Single fathers / Geoffrey L. Greif.

Lone motherhood in twentieth-century Britain : from footnote to front page / Kathleen Kiernan, Hilary Land, Jane Lewis.

When father is away / A.H. Denney.

Illegitimacy, sexuality and the status of women / Derek Gill.

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Children of scorn and medical papers / by Lady Cook (née Tennessee Claflin).

Single fathers / Geoffrey L. Greif.

Lone motherhood in twentieth-century Britain : from footnote to front page / Kathleen Kiernan, Hilary Land, Jane Lewis.

When father is away / A.H. Denney.

Illegitimacy, sexuality and the status of women / Derek Gill.