Pat Thane and Tanya Evans: Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England
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Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England
Sinners? Scroungers? Saints?: Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England offers a rich and fascinating study of the National Council of the Unmarried Mother and Her Child (later the National Council for One Parent Families, then One Parent Families and now Gingerbread), a charitable organization that was established to provide support for unmarried mothers and their children. In doing so...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Population
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0168-6577,1572-9885
DOI: 10.1007/s10680-014-9331-z