When singles decide to have sex in their relationship and a pregnancy occurs, some of the responses to such a development include abortion of the pregnancy or abandonment of the relationship and the relationship partner. In the first part of the Parenting series ' Raising your child as a single parent', this podcast takes a look at one of the causes of single parenthood and offers singles insights on how to respond to a pregnancy in their relationship and situations where they are abandoned by their partners on account of the pregnancy.