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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Unmarried mothers"”.
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Unmarried mothers: the legislative context in Ireland, 1921
No abstract available
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Planning a system of services for unmarried mothers in Boston.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1970. M.C.P.
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The Experience of Unmarried Mothers in Barrow and the Furness Area 1960-1996
… This dissertation investigates the experience of unmarried mothers in Barrow and the Furness area between the years 1960 and 1996. Barrows distinct geographical location, isolated at the edge of the Furness peninsula, has a strong working class culture that acts as a good test-tube. Unmarried …
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Family Structure and Human Capital Formation in Jamaica
… Is the educational achievement of children with unmarried mothers different than that of children with married mothers? This is a potentially important question for Jamaica, since 80% of children are born out of wedlock and the probability of having married parents at age 15 is just 50 percent. …
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Often treated harshly: Girls and young women in 1957 Perth
… sexual activity as well as the ostracism of unmarried mothers by both the community and the state. Specifically confined to the Perth locale the thesis also examines the culture of two long-standing Perth institutions for allegedly errant young women. I contend that the “tolerance, fair play …
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"The ""right to be helped"": welfare policies and notions of rights at the margins of Soviet society, 1917-1950"
… disabled children, blind and deaf adults, single mothers, and political prisoners, I examine the multiple and changing ideas that underlie the defense of this right. I reveal that both the Soviet state authorities and these marginalized social groups tended to reject charity as a form of unwanted …
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The lived experiences of single teenage mothers in Botswana : a phenomenological study
… explore-the lived-experiences of single teenage mothers in Botswana, as perceived by them. The participants were teenage mothers who had to leave school due.to pregnancy. They had either completed year one in secondary school or were in year two. Their ages ranged between 16 and 19 years. The …
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A social history of illegitimacy in Ireland from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century
… of men. In particular, dependence of single mothers on benefits has been an important factor in galvanising the thoughts of policy makers. [8] As such thinking on the supposed links between babies and benefits seems not too distant from nineteenth-century concerns with unmarried mothers and …
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Factors which influence the decision of unwed mothers to keep or surrender their illegitimate children to a public adoption agency
<p>The general purpose of this study is to turn to the possibilities of a second focus of research into the adoption process, that is, to what can be learned about the natural mother.</p><p> The particular purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to identify the socio-economic characteristics of …
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The construction of wellbeing for solo mothers: An exploration of the relationship between work, welfare, social justice and wellbeing for solo mothers
… of subjective wellbeing of Australian solo mothers was explored in relation to work, welfare and social justice. A purposive sample of 73 solo mothers was recruited for the quantitative part of the study and 15 solo mothers were selected from the sample to interview for the qualitative …