Social scientists now talk of two new family forms: the single parent family and the remarried family.

社会学家现在讨论两种新的家庭形式：单亲家庭和再婚家庭。

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Today's families may include both the biological mother and father or a single parent or guardian, grandparents or other extended family, same-gender parents, or foster parents.

今天的家庭可能包括亲生父母，或者是单亲或监护人，以及祖父母或其他延伸的家庭成员，甚至是同性父母或者养父母。

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As the months went on I relied on friends and family, especially after becoming a single parent. For the first time in my life I felt disabled.

几个月过去了，我都依靠朋友和家人，而后来成为了单亲家庭，在生命中的第一次，我觉得自己真是个残疾人。

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The rise of grandfamilies also highlights another growing branch of America's changing family tree: The single parent household, overwhelmingly headed by mothers.

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Even at that age I could sense the gap in wealth and living standards compared to the relative comfort of growing up in a single parent family in Croydon.

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But what Scarborough failed to mention is that same black man came from a single-parent home where the mom had to go on welfare just to feed her family.

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