Why are there so many single parents

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Don't mean to offend anyone but I am new to UK and noticed there are so many single parents.
I am from Asia and most families I know have two parents so I am just curious about it.

In my case it’s because my ex started seeing someone else and then decided to move in with her and leave me and our children to struggle for next decade.

Yes I am bitter. On the flip side I got to be the primary parent and the adult children can see things for what they are now and understand my struggles through their younger years. That makes
the hard work worth it.

Your as much the blame as him it takes 2 to make a baby and your part was laying down.
Unless he cheated then good for you for leaving.

4 for 10 pounds sambuca shots and an epidemic of broken condom machines in pub toilets.

@niclw Bump up your pension payments to bring you down out of the higher rate tax bracket.

Ah, just saw your last post.

No one has mentioned the societal expectations are that people have families. I'm a single mum. I'd actually rather be single without the mum bit as I'd always been ambivalent about having kids.

Then my biological clock started ticking. Partner in no way way to blame for us splitting up. I chose him and I chose to have a child. No useless bloke to blame in this situation.

Yes he cheated on me when our baby was 6 months. We were married.

Because women are no longer forced and shamed in to staying married or in partnership with abusive, manipulative and chauvinistic men.

'What about the menz? Ooh, not all men are like that!' Squeal squeal.

Not in the OP she didn’t. I also said, all of the previous answers in addition to mine. Plus, you can work and be supported by government.

Isn't it just