Parent is your legal (biological and/or adoptive)
parent or your stepparent.
The following rules apply to your legal parents
regardless of their gender:
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Parents living together and legally married, answer
questions about both of them
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Parents are living together and not married, answer
questions about both of them
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Parent is widowed or was never married, answer
question about that parent
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Parents are divorced or separated and don’t live
together, answer the questions about the parent with
who the student lived more during the past 12 months
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Parents who are divorced but live together, you will
answer questions about both of them