A single parent is a person who lives with a child or children and who does not have a spouse or live-in partner. Reasons for becoming a single parent include divorce, break-up, abandonment, domestic violence, rape, death of the other parent, childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption.

Are you considered a single mom If you have a boyfriend?

In other places, youre considered single until you have been residing with your partner for more than two years. Regardless of the circumstances, if you receive financial, emotional or physical parenting support from your partner then you are no longer a single mum.