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The other woman and her child : extra-marital affairs and illegitimacy in twentieth-century Britain

Verfasst von: Evans, Tanya
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Wallingford: 2011 , 47 - 65 S.

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Einrichtung: Ariadne | Wien
Verfasst von: Evans, Tanya
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Jahr: 2011
Sprache: Englisch
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This article investigates the numbers of 'other women' and their children up until the 1960s in Britain. It analyses 'irregular and illicit unions' in the records of the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child (now One Parent Families/Gingerbread), and explores evidence on these unions in the debates over the passage of the Divorce Acts of 1923 and 1937 as well as the Legitimacy Acts of 1926 and 1959. It suggests that the prevalence of illicit unions throughout the twentieth century and before allows us to question contemporary concerns about our supposed 'divorcing society' and the decline of family life in modern Britain
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