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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the life of me I do not understand why people find this hard to define. If you are single and parenting -- no matter how you got that way be it divorce, never married, widowed -- you are a single parent. This is not rocket science. The answer is in the question and in the term. [/quote]

If you receive alimony or child support or your child has visitation where they actually live or spend the night/weekend/summer, you are divorced.  If you do not receive alimony or child support, you are single.

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If you used to be married to someone, who is still alive, but to whom you are no longer married, you are divorced.  Whether or not your ex is around, or sees the kids, or pays support has nothing to do with whether or not you are divorced.  Similarly, if you were never married to your ex, or you're still married to your ex, you're not divorced whether or not you receive child support or the kid goes to see the ex.

None of this has to do with single parenting.  Someone who is single (not partnered), and a parent, is single parenting.  The end.[/quote]

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