The expansion of the nuclear family unit in Great Britain between 1910 and 1920 |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Maternal and Child Health Program, Department of Family Science, University of Maryland, College Park;2. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD;3. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI;4. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD;5. Public Health Program, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks;1. Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG, United Kingdom;2. Faculty of Business, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | This article deals with the evolution of the image of the individual and of family structure within every social class in Great Britain between 1910 and 1920, not only because of the influence of the Great War but also of the effect of new social legislative steps taken by the Radical Liberal government. Its essential findings are that the power of males declined in the aristocracy when they were faced, on the one hand, by the increasing attention and concern for children, and on the other hand, by the social, cultural, moral, and political part played by mothers within smaller working- and middle-class family units. Such units were regarded as the crucible for the regeneration and strengthening of the whole British society. |
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