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Putative Fathers
Marital Status
Single 82
Married 41
Divorced 1
Unknown 39
Separated 12
Occupation
Architect 1
Teachers 5
Students 17
Office Workers 21
Factory and
Manual 47
Unknown 60
Milkmen 2
Miscellaneous 22
Ages
16 years 3
17 „ 2
18 „ 11
19 „ 23
20 „ 27
21-30 42
31-40 9
Unknown 58
Countries of origin
other than G.B.
Ireland 23
Pakistan 5
Fiji Islands 1
Holland 1
W. Indies 3
Sweden 1
Cyprus 2
New Zealand 2
China 2
Australia 3
S. Africa 2
Italy 2
W. Germany 1
America 3
Ways in which unsupported mothers have been helped.
By admission to working girls hostels in early pregnancy 33
By admission to maternity homes and hostels 86
By admission to flatlet house for mothers and babies 1
By providing private accommodation 7
By reconciliation with parents and relatives 23
By private financial agreements and affiliation orders 31
By adoption through registered adoption agencies 65
By fostering arrangements 27
By emergency accommodation provided on behalf of the Welfare
Department 4
By emergency accommodation being provided on behalf of the Children's
Department 1
At the end of 1966 the mothers who decided to keep their babies were
living in the following way
Had returned to parents or relatives 45
Had married putative father 15
Were cohabiting with putative father 9
Married to other than putative father 2
Had accepted residential work 9
Were living in flatlet house for mother with babies 1
Were living in lodgings 2
Living in own homes 3
Mothers who parted with babies
By adoption 55
Pregnancies terminated 2
Arrangements still incomplete 23
Still births 1
Miscarriage 1
Transferred to other social work agencies 2
Still fostered at the end of 1966 5
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