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Here Pat Thane provides a wealth of useful material for students taking the ‘Families and households’ topic. Using historical data, she looks at many aspects of family life which are thought to have worsened since the alleged ‘golden age’ of families to which many politicians and journalists frequently refer.
The author therefore considers divorce, cohabitation, the custody of children, births outside marriage, what are now known as ‘singletons’, unhappy marriages and relations between generations.
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