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The second sentence of the first quote above should say:
<< This was introduced largely to meet the wishes of children’s departments in many large cities, especially those with a big *immigrant* populations>>
Of course that reflected a cultural difference in attitudes towards children and illegitimacy. No one much expected a white English father of an Illegitimate child to take an interest in 1959.
I wonder how many MPs of the time had fathered such children.
Robin
harritt.eu
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