Sinners? Scroungers? Saints?: Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England
- ISBN-10
- 0199578508
- ISBN-13
- 9780199578504
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 223
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-05
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Tanya Evans, Pat Thane
Description
Covers the stories of unwed mothers and one of the voluntary organization that supported them throughout the century: The National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her Child (which renamed itself), The National Council for One Parent Families, (and is now, after a merger, called Gingerbread).
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