Lone Mothers

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Notes

[1] Grant no. RES‐000‐23‐0545.

[2] Tanya Evans worked as the Research Fellow on this project and Pat Thane was the Principal Investigator. This research will be published in 2011, Unmarried Motherhood in Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

[3] Spring 2005 Labour Force Survey data, Labour Market Review 2006. Office of National Statistics (2006) Social Trends, 37. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_social/Social_Trends37/Social_Trends_37.pdf.

[4] Katherine Holden, Amy Froide & June Hannam (Eds) (2008) Special Issue: Winners or Losers? Single Women in History 1000–2000, Women’s History Review, vol. 17, no. 3.

[5] http://www.gingerbread.org.uk/content/365/Gingerbread-Factfile.

[6] One Parent Families Facts (2007).

[7] Thomas Nutt (2007) Unmarried Mothers as Scroungers? Assessing the Tax Burden of Illegitimacy and the Payment of Maintenance by Fathers in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England, paper presented at ‘New Perspectives on Lone Mothers: an academic symposium’, at the Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University on 23 November.

[8] Sheila Ferguson & Hilda Fitzgerald (1954) Studies in the Social Services (London: HMSO), p. 141.