She said single, not widower. Women initiate 80% of divorce.
Indeed they do. And taking it further, ‘single’ suggests never married, whereas ‘divorced’ does. But knowing human nature and having experienced the female of our species in the context of marriage a couple of times, I would not expect one who initiated the divorce to identify herself as ‘divorced’, as it implies, subtly, that her husband divorced her. Thus, ‘single’ could easily mean ‘never married’ or ‘I divorced him’... Sigh...
Single parent can mean never married, divorced or surviving spouse. It really doesn’t matter what her marriage status was, her children could see that she worked two jobs in order to take care of them. She did her job and her new husband owes them nothing. Does the daughter not know about the pre-nup? That’s a pretty big hint that she shouldn’t expect a house from her stepfather.
She does not mention how she became single.
The one who cheats or otherwise abandons their spouse seldom files for divorce. They’ve moved on and can’t be bothered with details.
So what that statistic really saying?