Unmarried Mothers: A Statistical Study of Forty Unmarried Mothers and a Comparison of the Planning of Twenty-Three Unmarried Who Entered Maternity Shelters With Planning of Seventeen Unmarried Who Did Not Enter Shelters, the Spence-Chapin Adoption Service, New York, 1963
Abstract
Background of the Study. "Births out-of-wedlock have occurred since the beginning of time, despite their lack of social acceptance in many cultures. In the United States, public concern has mounted as illegitimacy l has increased." Much has been said and written about unmarried motherhood in recent years. This has resulted in greater public interest in the problem and an increase in the services being offered to the woman who is pregnant out-of-wedlock. This increase in services has been necessary because the number of illegitimate births has grown so that the United States Bureau of Census now reports 268,700 live births out-of-wedlock each year. This increase is from 3.8% of all live births in 1940 to 4.7% 3 in 1957.
Subject Area
Sociology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Masters, Carolyn Mildred, "Unmarried Mothers: A Statistical Study of Forty Unmarried Mothers and a Comparison of the Planning of Twenty-Three Unmarried Who Entered Maternity Shelters With Planning of Seventeen Unmarried Who Did Not Enter Shelters, the Spence-Chapin Adoption Service, New York, 1963" (1964). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31189667.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31189667
