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Single-Parent Families Widowed . Sometimes a perfectly happy marriage is brought to an end when one of the parents dies. This is heartbreaking for everyone—and in a unique way Unmarried versus Single Some couples live and have children together but, for whatever reason, decide not to marry. Until recently, gay and lesbian parents had no choice but to be “unmarried parents,” too, simply because the law did not allow them to wed. The most recent U.S. census found more than 3 million kids being raised by couples who live together without marrying. But although these are technically “unmarried” parents, they are not “single” parents in the sense we mean in this book.

Some of the people whom the census calls “unmarried parents” are in lesbian or gay relationships. Until 2015, most of them were not allowed to marry, even if they wanted to.

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