High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Single parent is a term that is mostly used to suggest that one parent has most of the day to day responsibilities in the raising of the child or children, which would categorize them as the dominant caregiver. The dominant caregiver is the parent in which the children have residency with majority of the time, if the parents are separated or divorced children live with their custodial parent and have visitation with their noncustodial parent. In western society in general, following separation, a child will end up with the 'primary caregiver' (the main carer, e.g. in UK over 90% of the time the mother and a 'secondary caregiver, ' normally the father. There are many facets involving single parenting in the social spectrum of our world today. This article will discuss topics such as demographics, multipule debates, mother and father as primary caregivers, single parent adoption, and divorce