Cohabitation and non-marital births in England and Wales, 1600-2012 / edited by Rebecca Probert.
Today, almost half of all children are born outside marriage, with cohabiting relationships accounting for the majority of such births. But what was the situation in earlier centuries? Bringing together leading historians, demographers and lawyers, this interdisciplinary collection examines the chan...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Today, almost half of all children are born outside marriage, with cohabiting relationships accounting for the majority of such births. But what was the situation in earlier centuries? Bringing together leading historians, demographers and lawyers, this interdisciplinary collection examines the changing context of non-marital child-bearing in England and Wales since 1600. Drawing on Private Acts of Parliament, ecclesiastical court records, reported cases, sessions files, coronial records, poor law records, petitions to the London Foundling Hospital, the registers of the London Bridewell, the records of charitable institutions, surveys and modern demographic data, it not only shows the relative rarity of cohabitation in earlier periods but also discovers the nature of individual relationships. It also explores how differences in the extent of both non-marital child-bearing and cohabitation emerge depending on definition, source material, interpretation and location, building up a more nuanced picture of past practices. |
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| Item Description: | Papers from a workshop held in 2012 at the Law School of the University of Warwick. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages .) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137396273 113739627X 1349484555 9781349484553 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |