Once the eggs are hatched, however, a lone parent does almost as well at raising the chicks as both do together.

但是一旦鸟卵孵化，单亲就几乎可以和双亲一样抚养幼鸟了。

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In 2013, the Office for National Statistics estimated there are 1.9million lone parent families in England and Wales whose children are school age or younger.

2013年，英国国家统计局(the Office for National Statistics)估计，在英格兰和威尔士，有190万单亲家庭的孩子已到或快到上学年龄。

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An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless.

一个异常短暂的婚姻瓦解了，我没有工作，身为单亲妈妈，且在现今英国还不到无家可归地步下达到有可能的最贫穷地步。

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Where a lone parent has just one pre-school child, the incentives to work longer hours are still "relatively low", the report claims.

BBC: mum and daughter

Once a lone parent's youngest child has reached the age of 12, and is attending a secondary school, they should no longer qualify for income support on this basis.

BBC: Isle of Man welfare change for single parents

In addition to rising inequality, Britain's lowly position in the poverty league table is accentuated by its particularly high share of children living in lone parent families and workless households.

ECONOMIST: Child poverty