Use
Single mother, single father, single parent
Avoid
Lone mother / lone father, pokrytka
The term “lone mother” has long been a brand in our society and is perceived as describing a woman left alone with a child or multiple children. In fact, the reasons why women, as well as men, raise children on their own are many: the loss of a partner, self-adoption, and so on. And the outdated and quite offensive word “pokrytka” is best left back in classical Ukrainian literature of the XIX century.
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