| Lone-parent family refers to a parent with at least one never-married child living in the same dwelling. |
| The same bodyguard, apparently bearing croissants, returns to fetch the never-married philandering leader the next morning. |
| Statistics show that never-married mothers are less likely to marry than divorced mothers, perhaps because men prefer to be unencumbered by new economic responsibilities and especially by children who are not theirs. |
| A moral discourse, in which exclusion is seen as a matter of workless households and in which specific groups, such as young unemployed men and never-married single mothers, become the focal point. |
