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Single mother
* Many single mothers struggle to pay the bills and support their families.
* More single mothers have jobs and report having more money.
* Some single mothers make heroic efforts on behalf of their children
  - produce daughters
* are likely to be the most sensitive to child care costs
  - seven times more likely to be at poverty levels
* are the fastest growing demographic group in Australia
  - group most closely identified with welfare
* carry a huge financial burden compared to two-parent households.
* cope alone with finances, family schedules, crises, homemaking, and full-time work.
* demonstrate higher levels of psychiatric symptoms than other categories of women.
* face numerous barriers when pursuing higher education
  - social stigma and economic difficulties in trying to raise a child
  - twice the risk of depression as do married mothers
* form the largest percentage of the poor.
* head the nation's poorest households.
* turn to kinship and social networks.
* work hard to do the job of two parents.

Surrogate mother
* Most surrogate mothers have a fantasy of helping a young infertile couple with no children.
* Some surrogate mothers say they have never stopped grieving.
* are generally very sensitive, caring people
  - women who agree to carry a pregnancy for a couple

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Teenage mother
* Many teenage mothers end up raising their children alone in poverty.
* Most teenage mothers drop out of school.
* are also likely to have low birth weight babies.
* are less likely to complete high school and more likely to be poor
  - seek out regular prenatal care
  - likely to have another child before they are an adult
* are more likely to drop out of school
  - smoke than their older counterparts
* face risks with children.
* have a higher rate of anemia and pregnancy induced hypertension occurring
  - risk of having very small babies
* smoke more during pregnancy than mothers of any other age.

Unmarried mother
* are thus more likely to cohabit with another adult.
* tend to be younger and more disadvantaged than their divorced counterparts.

Young mother
* Most young mothers have reproduction.
* are just one segment of the homeless population
  - less likely to drink or to hang out with youth who drink
* die early.
* experience problems in giving birth due to undeveloped reproductive systems.
* have greater risks of complications during pregnancy

Myopic parent
* are more likely to have myopic children.
* prefer to have night-lights on and are more likely to have nearsighted kids.

Natural parent
* Most natural parents raise chicks
  - see humans
* Some natural parents do jobs.
* have protectible interests in life, health and well-being of their unborn children.
* take care
  - extra care

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New parent
* All new parents work at knowing, understanding, and loving their babies.
* Many new parents become concerned when they listen to the breathing noises a newborn makes
  - experience anxious nights with sleepless children
  - spend weeks in their child's birth country with little, if any, medical support
* Most new parents suffer from uncertainty, confusion, and fatigue
  - worry a great deal about their baby's breathing
* are especially concerned with doing everything they can to keep their children safe
  - voracious consumers of both information and new products
* can immediately share pictures of their newborn with loved ones around the world.
* leave applies to parents who adopt or take in a foster child.

Obese parent
* rear obese children.
* tend to have obese children.

Palestinian parent
* love their children, like all parents.
* see their children as their only thread of continuity in life.