Single Mothers and their Children
Subtitle: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia (Studies in Australian History)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521474436
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history: from c 1900 -; Single parents; 20th century; History: World; Single Adult Family; History - General History; Australia; Pacific Ocean; Parenting - Single Parent; Australia & New Zealand - Australia; History / Australia & Oceania; Single mothers--Australia--History; Australia & New Zealand - General; History; Single mothers
First sentence: No formal licence is required to have a child in Australia, yet, for most of the last two hundred years, an equally effective informal sanctioning system has been in operation.