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single father

American  
Informal, single dad

noun

  1. a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.


Etymology

Origin of single father

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

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He added, “His dream life is no longer available to him. Now the only thing he has is his son, who is not so sure he wants the same life as Kayce. A big part of the season is Kayce learning how to manage all these new things — new job, being a single father.”

From Los Angeles Times

But the particulars of Arthur Liu’s pathway—single father by choice via surrogacy—have been largely understudied and, despite those high-profile examples, receive little public attention.

From Slate

Though not a figure skater, Alysa Liu’s father, Arthur Liu, has bucked tradition in his own way: He is a single father by choice.

From Slate

Though not as rare as having a gold medal, becoming a single father via surrogacy is a pretty select distinction—so select, in fact, that it’s hard to ascertain the exact numbers.

From Slate

So being a single father by choice is a rarer phenomenon, and doing so via gestational surrogacy, in which the surrogate mother bears no genetic link to the child she carries, is rarer yet.

From Slate