Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Social Survey Division, The General Household Survey: Introductory Report, 1973, HMSO.
2.
See my Decision in Child Care, Allen and Unwin, 1966.
3.
Government Statistical Service, Social Trends, No 8, 1977 (tables 2.20 and 2.21).
4.
DHSS, Report of the Committee on One-Parent Families, Cmnd. 5629, 1974.
5.
DHSS, Children in Care in England and Wales, March 1976, H C 506.
6.
Op. cit., Children in Care in England and Wales, Other figures in this section are derived from the same source.
7.
However, one needs to bear in mind the fact that admission for apparently ‘simple’ reasons may be tantamount to a warning signal. See H R and E B Schaffer, Child Care and the Family, Occasional Papers in Social Administration, No 25, Bell, 1968.
8.
For an excellent general discussion of this issue see MorrisP, Loss and Change, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.
