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Putative Fathers
Marital Status Ages Countries of origin
Single 106 14 years 1 other than G.B.
Married 21 15 ,, — Eire 24
Divorced — 16 „ 3 Spain 2
Unknown 13 17 „ 4 America 2
Separated 7 18 „ 5 Canada 2
19 ,, 16 S. Africa 2
Occupation 20 „ 15 Malta 1
Actor 1 21—30 79 China 1
Accountant 1 31-49 — Argentine 1
Architect 1 59 „ 1 Ghana 2
Doctors 2 Unknown 1 Italy 1
Teachers 5 Greece 1
Students 24 W. Indies 2
Office Workers 33
Manual and
Labourers 49
Chefs and
Hotel
Workers 5
Soldiers, Sailors
and Airmen 6
Busmen 2
Laundry
Worker 1
Milkman 1
Taxi Driver 1
Barrow Boy 1
School Boys 2
Librarians 2
Unknown 10
Ways in which unsupported mothers have been helped.
By admission to working girls hostels in early pregnancy 26
By admission to maternity homes and hostels 67
By admission to flatlet house for mothers and babies 1
By providing private accommodation 1
By reconciliation with parents and relatives 21
By private financial agreements and affiliation orders 23
By adoption through registered adoption agencies 59
By fostering arrangements and private nurseries 54
By gifts of clothing, cots and prams 11
By temporary care provided by the Children's Department 3
By arrangements made but later cancelled (a'ternative arrangements
being made) 15
At the end of 1967 the mothers who decided to keep their babies were
living in the following way
Had returned to parents or relatives 33
Had married putative father 12
Were co-habiting with putative father 10
Married to other than putative father 2
Had accepted residential work 2
Was living in flatlet house 1
Were living in lodgings 3
Living in own homes 4
Returned to husband 2
Mothers who parted with babies
By adoption 57
Pregnancies terminated 1
Arrangements still incomplete 12
Still births 1
Miscarriage 2
Transferred to other social work agencies 2
Still fostered at the end of 1967, future undecided 3
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