Evans Tanya Evans
Macquarie University, Sydney.
Womens Hist Rev. 2011;20(1):47-65. doi: 10.1080/09612025.2011.536385.
This article investigates the numbers of 'other women' and their children up until the 1960s in Britain. It analyses 'irregular and illicit unions' in the records of the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child (now One Parent Families/Gingerbread), and explores evidence on these unions in the debates over the passage of the Divorce Acts of 1923 and 1937 as well as the Legitimacy Acts of 1926 and 1959. It suggests that the prevalence of illicit unions throughout the twentieth century and before allows us to question contemporary concerns about our supposed 'divorcing society' and the decline of family life in modern Britain.
本文调查了直到20世纪60年代英国“其他女性”及其子女的数量。它分析了全国未婚母亲及其子女理事会（现单亲家庭/姜饼组织）记录中的“非正规和非法结合”，并在关于1923年和1937年《离婚法案》以及1926年和1959年《合法化法案》通过的辩论中探讨了这些结合的证据。它表明，整个20世纪及以前非法结合的普遍存在使我们能够质疑当代对我们所谓“离婚社会”以及现代英国家庭生活衰落的担忧。
