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

Noncustodial parent

A "noncustodial parent" is a parent who does not have physical and/or legal custody of his/her child by court order.A "child-custody determination" means a judgment, decree, or other order of a court providing for the legal custody, physical custody, or visitation with respect to a child. The term...

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