widowed parent
Sole remaining guardian
A widowed parent is someone raising children after the death of their spouse.
The term emphasizes the dual challenge of single parenting while grieving: As a widowed parent, she had to be both mother and father to her kids.
Distinguished from divorced or never-married single parents by the element of loss.
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- lossBeing without something
- bereavedDeprived by death
- single motherWoman raising children alone
- single fatherMale parent without partner
mourning · grief counseling · support group · orphan · death · death certificate · funeral · memory · resilience · loneliness · survivor · black dress · life insurance · anniversary · photograph · family photos · inheritance · cemetery
- family structuresnuclear family, extended family, blended family, stepfamily, foster family
- single parentssingle mom, single dad, single mother, single father, unwed mother
- Single Parentingsingle mom, single dad, single mother, single father, sole custody
- family rolesmother, father, mom, dad, mama