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In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure. In doing so, she explores the experience of being an unmarried mother from courtship and conception, through the discovery of pregnancy, and the birth of the child in lodgings or one of the new parish workhouses. Although fathers were generally held to be financially responsible for their illegitimate children, the recovery of these costs was particularly low in London, leaving the parish ratepayers to meet the cost. Unmarried parenthood was associated with shame and men and women could also be subject to punishment, although this was generally infrequent in the capital. Illegitimacy and the poor law were interdependent and this book charts the experience of unmarried motherhood and the making of metropolitan bastardy.

Poor laws --- Illegitimacy --- Unmarried mothers --- Unwed mothers --- Single mothers --- Illegitimate children --- Bastardy --- Legitimacy (Law) --- Parent and child (Law) --- Sex and law --- Paternity --- History. --- History --- Law and legislation --- Social history. --- Great Britain-History. --- Civilization-History. --- Women. --- Law-History. --- Social History. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Cultural History. --- Women's Studies. --- Legal History. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- Sociology --- Great Britain—History. --- Civilization—History. --- Law—History.

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In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure. In doing so, she explores the experience of being an unmarried mother from courtship and conception, through the discovery of pregnancy, and the birth of the child in lodgings or one of the new parish workhouses. Although fathers were generally held to be financially responsible for their illegitimate children, the recovery of these costs was particularly low in London, leaving the parish ratepayers to meet the cost. Unmarried parenthood was associated with shame and men and women could also be subject to punishment, although this was generally infrequent in the capital. Illegitimacy and the poor law were interdependent and this book charts the experience of unmarried motherhood and the making of metropolitan bastardy.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Law --- Higher education --- World history --- History of civilization --- History --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Eastern Europe --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- vrouwenstudies --- zwangerschap --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- schrijfvaardigheid --- sociale geschiedenis --- moederschap --- Europese geschiedenis

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"Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival is the first book to explore the trauma of the boarding school experience at Steward Indian School and the resilience of generations of students who persevered there under the most challenging of circumstances"--

Indians of North America --- Indian students --- Off-reservation boarding schools --- Education --- History. --- Stewart Indian School (Carson City, Nev. : -1980) --- Carson City (Nev.) --- History