BACKGROUND & PURPOSE: • Many physical and psychological benefits associated with youth sport participation • Sport participation rates are drastically lower in children from single parent families • More than 1 in 4 families in U.S. with children under the age of 18 are headed by a single parent • Majority of research conducted on teen sport participation has involved two parent families • Leisure involvement found to play a greater role among single parent families than it does in two parent families RESEARCH QUESTION: • How are teens from single parent families able to transform sport participation into a meaningful occupation?