Cohabitation and Non-Marital Births in England and Wales, 1600-2012 [electronic resource] /
Probert, R.editor.
Today, cohabiting relationships account for most births outside marriage. But what was the situation in earlier centuries? Bringing together leading historians, demographers and lawyers, this interdisciplinary collection draws on a wide range of sources to examine the changing context of non-marital child-bearing in England and Wales since 1600.
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; 1 Bridewell, bawdy courts and bastardy in early seventeenth-century London; 2 Cohabitation in context in early seventeenth-century London; 3 'All he wanted was to kill her that he might marry the Girl': Broken marriages and cohabitation in the long eighteenth century; 4 'They lived together as man and wife': Plebeian cohabitation, illegitimacy, and broken relationships in London, 1700-1840; 5 Bastardy and divorce trials, 1780-1809
6 Cohabiting couples in the nineteenth-century coronial records of the Midlands Circuit7 The kindness of strangers revisited: Fostering, adoption and illegitimacy in England, 1860-1930; 8 The context of illegitimacy from the 1920s to the 1960s; 9 Cohabitation and births outside marriage after 1970: A rapidly evolving phenomenon; 10 Cohabitation and marriage in Britain since the 1970s; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Today, cohabiting relationships account for most births outside marriage. But what was the situation in earlier centuries? Bringing together leading historians, demographers and lawyers, this interdisciplinary collection draws on a wide range of sources to examine the changing context of non-marital child-bearing in England and Wales since 1600.
History, Modern.
Civilization-History.
Social history.
Great Britain-History.
Modern History.
Cultural History.
Social History.
History of Britain and Ireland.