Titlebook: Children in Changing Families; A Study of Adoption Lydia Lambert,Jane Streather Textbook 1980Latest edition National Children’s Bureau 198

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Introduction a history going back into the mists of time but in Britain adoption became formally recognised with the passing of the first Adoption Acts in 1926 (England) and 1930 (Scotland). These made provision for . situations which had increased considerably with the number of children left fatherless (not a

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The Familyeholds. Each individual family has been regarded as part of a system of interlocking nuclear families (Harris, 1969; Turner, 1969; Goode, 1964). Hence, in Britain, as in many other countries which have become industrialised, the family is thought to consist of two married parents and their dependent

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The Follow-up StudyS). This is a follow-up study of approximately 16000 children born in the week 3–9 March 1958 and living in England, Wales and Scotland. Originally information was collected on these children as part of the Perinatal Mortality Survey (Butler and Bonham, 1963). The children have now been followed up

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Background Characteristicsal attainment as well as of other aspects of development. In studying the development of illegitimate and adopted children, and in making comparisons between these two groups and legitimate children, it is important to know whether or not their social class distributions are broadly similar or diffe

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Families on Low Incomesfinition of poverty is represented by the Supplementary Benefits Commission’s scale rates, which are laid down by Parliament, and these provide a national minimum standard of living below which the Government feels no household should fall. It has been argued that the official measures of poverty ar

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Housing Conditionsralised assumptions about certain forms of tenure. Previous work from the NCDS has drawn attention to the prevalence of overcrowding in the study children’s homes and to factors associated with this situation (Davie .., 1972; Wedge and Prosser, 1973; Essen and Parrinder, 1975). Overcrowding was foun