The answer is growing up in a single-parent family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Married, Madonna] Reference

And this is African-American single-parent families.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2009] Reference

We can't talk about the problem of single-parent families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Republican Riffs] Reference

Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single-parent home.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2008] Reference

JOANIE ALLAN, GRANDMOTHER: They live in a single-parent family.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2004] Reference

In any case, most single-parent families don't happen by choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Values?] Reference

WRIGHT: Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single-parent home.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2008] Reference

The sharp jump in single-parent families also boosts demand for housing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sold!] Reference

Now 45, Huggins grew up in a single-parent family and never went college.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battleground Chicago] Reference

NGUYEN: Well, how does he know they're coming from single-parent residences?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2007] Reference

The national average here, and then you bring in black single-parent families.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2009] Reference

A lot of "households" have fragmented; there are more single-parent families now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemplative Bomb-Thrower] Reference

And you know, right now, 18 percent of all American households are single-parent households.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Wynonna and Naomi Judd Discuss 'The Power to Change' - January 28, 2000] Reference

The fact that we now have so many single-parent families, that's a predictor of social mobility.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Humphrys: 'Let headteachers get on with improving schools'] Reference

You know, the only requirement was had you to be from a single-parent home headed up by a mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2009] Reference

And you were, you know, working with single-parent mothers and grandparents raising grandchildren.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2009] Reference

And living in a single-parent home can cause a disconnect among children between family and marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [John W. Whitehead: The Breakdown of the Traditional Family: Why Conservative Christians Should Rethink Their Blame Game] Reference

Let's start with the obvious: kids are far likelier to grow up in single-parent homes than ever before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Issue: How Kids Grow Portrait Of A Geration] Reference

In four decades the percentage of children raised in single-parent households has more than quadrupled.    From Wordnik.com.  [DOES COSBY HELP?] Reference

As a child, Moby was one of the few low-income, single-parent kids in the upscale suburb of Darien, Conn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great White Male] Reference

Gangs remain a fact of life here, after all, and there are still myriad single-parent homes and teen parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Straight Into Compton] Reference

Pixar's "Finding Nemo" is without any doubt the best film ever made about a single-parent clown fish and his son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freeing Nemo: A Whale Of A Tale] Reference

Growing up in a single-parent home, 13-year-old Tyler Jimenez of Yucaipa, Calif., learned to look out for himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About Tweens] Reference

But one of the things -- in the book "Family First," I have a whole chapter on single-parent and blended families.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2004] Reference

The two-parent model is predominant and perhaps ideal, but single-parent families are here to stay and in large numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Values?] Reference

When a couple divorces, they are pertectly capable of carrying gender stereotypes with them into single-parent households.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fixing The 'Between'] Reference

More than half of all black children live in single-parent households -- half -- a number that's doubled since we were children.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2008] Reference

These families-including many single-parent households-are nearest the edge, where low incomes can defeat good parental instincts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Child Abuse] Reference

O'BRIEN: On his daily radio talk show, Roland Martin discusses issues important in black America, issues like single-parent families.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2008] Reference

Children in single-parent homes are also more likely to drop out of school and become teen parents, even when income is factored out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Audacity of Hope]

No one really knows the long-term consequences for youngsters who grow up in these new varieties of single-parent and cohabiting homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unmarried, With Children] Reference

Teenagers in single-parent families and in blended families are three times more likely to need psychological help within a given year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: The Kids Are All Right -- On Gay Parents, Divorce and Marrying Murderers] Reference

At the same time, a rise in divorce has brought a parallel surge in the number of single-parent families who struggle to make ends meet.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘The Gap Society’] Reference

KING: And single-parent families, the percentage of African - Americans in single-parent households, 53 percent in 1984; 56 percent now.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2009] Reference