Single/lone parent

[Slipperboots]

This isn’t goady- honest.

I just notice some people say single and some people say lone. Do people consider it the same or do they have a separate definition for each.

I’m just interested that’s all.

I take lone to mean parenting completely alone with no input from NRP or shared care but I think they're probably interchangeable to most people.

What Potty said. Am a lone parent.

I agree with PP, single is when separated but lone parent I consider to mean that the other parent isn't involved at all

It’s what I would think, I know a few people whose ex’s have nothing to do with DC and I would have called them lone parents.
I’ve just read a few people on here using it differently that’s all.

I'm not so sure. I consider myself a lone parent although father of daughter contributes financially. He just does nothing else and never has. Not ... a ... single ... thing. No nappies, overnights, emotional support, can't even remember my DDs friends' names. He visits every week (when not abroad) our home I think mainly because I cook us all supper.

Because of this I had to give up my career to look after her. I would rather she was a lone parent child that a none parent child (my job needed full time plus 3 nights out a week and 6 or 7 trips abroad a year. Imposs!)

But all that said, I'm hoping it's worth it so that DD knows her father. He loves her and that has to be enough for childhood. She can make her own mind up later.