The decline in spinsterhood (continued).

1953 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
W. S. Hocking
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Average Level ◽  
Rapid Decline ◽  
Sample Analysis ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Registrar General ◽  
The Past ◽  
Number Of Births ◽  
Made In

Some three years ago a note in this Journal (J.S.S. 10, 24) called attention to the rapid decline that was taking place in the numbers of unmarried women in this country, due to the fact that the number of marriages was exceeding the number of young women reaching the marriageable ages. During the past three years statistics of a further three or four years' marriages have been issued and a sample analysis of the total population enumerated at the 1951 Census has been published. It may be of interest, therefore, to examine these data to see whether the trends exhibited in the years up to 1947–48 have continued and whether the 1951 Census results confirm the estimates given by the Registrar General for the inter-war years. The first assertion made in the note referred to is that ‘a considerable fall in the number of marriages, to be followed by a consequential fall in the number of births, is almost inevitable during the next few years’. As the number of marriages in England and Wales in the years 1950–52 averaged only 356,000, whereas during the period 1939–47 the average level was 385,000 a year, the first part of the assertion is being substantiated.

Getting to Know You: How Own Age and Other's Age Relate to Self-Disclosure

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline L. Collins ◽  
Odette N. Gould
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Young Old ◽  
Made In

In this study, we compared self-disclosures made in ten same-aged (young-young) and ten mixed-aged (young-old) conversational dyads. We developed a scoring scheme to code get-acquainted conversations on amount, type, valence, and intimacy of self-disclosure (S-Ds). Overall, young women produced more S-Ds with same-aged than with older partners. Young women devoted marginally fewer of their self-disclosures to statements about the past than did older women. Younger and older women's S-Ds about the present and the past were not significantly different in how negative, positive, or intimate they were. The intimacy and negativity of disclosures made by the dyad members were more closely correlated in young-young than in young-old dyads. Young participants' affective reports following the conversations did not differ as a function of partner age, but did correlate with aspects of their partners' self-disclosures. Findings offer a contrast to the stereotype that older adults dominate conversations with intimate, negative disclosures about the past.

Some Aspects of Suicide in Psychiatric Patients in Southend

1968 ◽  
Vol 114 (511) ◽  
pp. 739-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Robin ◽  
Eileen M. Brooke ◽  
Dorothy L. Freeman-Browne
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Time Of Death ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Registrar General ◽  
Similar Character

The County Borough of Southend-on-Sea is a seaside town with an estimated population of 166,390 in 1965, approximately 24 per cent. of whom were over the age of 60, as compared with 17.8 per cent. of the total population of England and Wales, and 17.7 per cent. of the population of urban areas, outside the conurbations, with populations of 100,000 and over. As in other seaside towns of a similar character, the suicide rate is high: 181 per million population in 1965, as compared with 108 per million in England and Wales, and 120 per million in urban areas outside the conurbations with populations of 100,000 and over (Registrar-General, 1967). Of 237 (46.4 per cent.) consecutive suicides in Southend 111 were over the age of 60 at the time of death.

Recent Trends in Teenage Pregnancy in England and Wales

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Teper
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Registrar General ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Trends

SummaryData published annually by the Registrar General for England and Wales indicate that over the past 10 years the numbers of births—and, since 1968, of legal therapeutic abortions—to teenagers have increased substantially. During much of the same period the fertility of older women declined. This paper examines the recent demographic trends in teenage pregnancy, and compares the fertility of these teenagers with that of older women.

Teenage pregnancy in England and Wales: some demographic and medico-social aspects

1978 ◽  
Vol 10 (S5) ◽  
pp. 65-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Rothman ◽  
P. Capell
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Past ◽  
Number Of Births

SummaryThere have been substantial changes in the pattern of pregnancies to teenagers in England and Wales in the past 25 years. The number of births and abortions to teenagers has increased until the last 2–3 years since when there has been a decline. This paper looks at the changes that have occurred in the population structure and marital patterns of teenagers during these years, and examines teenage pregnancies and their outcomes with regard to some of the medical and social factors that may have influenced these changes.

scholarly journals Artefact collecting: creating or destroying the archaeological record?

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 39-91
Author(s):  
Paul M. Barford
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Past ◽  
Made In

This paper examines some of the arguments used by archaeologists in favour of collaborating useful for archaeological research and is a form of public engagement with archaeology. It takes as a case study records of 48 600 medieval artefacts removed from archaeological contexts by artefact hunters and recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme in England and Wales. The past and potential uses of these records as an archaeological source are objectively reviewed, together with an assessment of the degree to which they provide mitigation of the damage caused to the otherwise unthreatened archaeological record. It is concluded that, although information can be obtained by studying records of findspots of addressed artefacts such as coins, in general the claims made in support of professional archaeological collaboration with this kind of activity prove to be false.

Regional Variations in the Provision of Orthodontic Treatment in England and Wales

1973 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. Stephens ◽  
T. P. Bass
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Orthodontic Treatment ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Regional Variations ◽  
Notable Feature ◽  
The Past ◽  
North And South ◽  
Made In

A notable feature of British Orthodontics in recent years has been the enormous increase in the number of cases taken on for treatment by practitioners in the National Health Service. Whilst references have been made in the past to possible regional variations in demand, no effort has been made to relate this to the local child population. The present study attempts this. The familiar North and South difference is found with some discrepancies and an explanation is offered.

Implementing a Police Foundation Degree—Insights from South Wales

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-361
Author(s):  
Colin Rogers ◽  
James Gravelle
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Similar Type ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Police ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Complex Landscape ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In ◽  
Police Forces

AbstractThe recent announcement by the College of Policing in England and Wales that policing is soon to become a degree entry profession should come as no surprise. For the past decade or so, a professionalization agenda has slowly pushed police forces in England and Wales to recognize that policing is irrevocably changing. Police officers now need to be equipped with higher educational skills, abilities, and knowledge to allow them to function in a complex landscape. However, attempts have been made in the past to establish degree or similar-type programmes involving partnerships between police forces and different universities, with varying levels of success. This article explores a foundation degree programme in a partnership between a local police organization and the University of Glamorgan. It explores the rationale behind the implementation of the programme, its content, and its aims and objectives. It also critically examines the positive and negative aspects of such a programme, and will have resonance for the future.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND REPORTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 864-864
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Infant Mortality Rate ◽  
International News ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
Registrar General ◽  
Live Births ◽  
The Past

The provisional figures from the Registrar General for 1948 are remarkable for the lowest infant mortality rate for England and Wales ever recorded. This now stands at 34 per 1,000 related live births and is a big improvement on the previous lowest figure of 41 reached in 1947. The general death rate was also the lowest (10.8 per 1,000 total population) so that it is clear that the country has been experiencing a healthy year. It has been suggested that the academic developments of child health departments in nearly all the universities in the past few years may be allotted some share in the credit for the record infant mortality rate.

Collective Memory: Between Values and Historical Knowledge

2020 ◽  
pp. 124-142
Author(s):  
VICTOR BURLACHUK
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Element ◽  
Rapid Decline ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

At the end of the twentieth century, questions of a secondary nature suddenly became topical: what do we remember and who owns the memory? Memory as one of the mental characteristics of an individual’s activity is complemented by the concept of collective memory, which requires a different method of analysis than the activity of a separate individual. In the 1970s, a situation arose that gave rise to the so-called "historical politics" or "memory politics." If philosophical studies of memory problems of the 30’s and 40’s of the twentieth century were focused mainly on the peculiarities of perception of the past in the individual and collective consciousness and did not go beyond scientific discussions, then half a century later the situation has changed dramatically. The problem of memory has found its political sound: historians and sociologists, politicians and representatives of the media have entered the discourse on memory. Modern society, including all social, ethnic and family groups, has undergone a profound change in the traditional attitude towards the past, which has been associated with changes in the structure of government. In connection with the discrediting of the Soviet Union, the rapid decline of the Communist Party and its ideology, there was a collapse of Marxism, which provided for a certain model of time and history. The end of the revolutionary idea, a powerful vector that indicated the direction of historical time into the future, inevitably led to a rapid change in perception of the past. Three models of the future, which, according to Pierre Nora, defined the face of the past (the future as a restoration of the past, the future as progress and the future as a revolution) that existed until recently, have now lost their relevance. Today, absolute uncertainty hangs over the future. The inability to predict the future poses certain challenges to the present. The end of any teleology of history imposes on the present a debt of memory. Features of the life of memory, the specifics of its state and functioning directly affect the state of identity, both personal and collective. Distortion of memory, its incorrect work, and its ideological manipulation can give rise to an identity crisis. The memorial phenomenon is a certain political resource in a situation of severe socio-political breaks and changes. In the conditions of the economic crisis and in the absence of a real and clear program for future development, the state often seeks to turn memory into the main element of national consolidation.

South Asian Developmental Crisis (Review Article)

1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-188
Author(s):  
Rafiq Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Integrated Theory ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Second World ◽  
Made In

Like nations and civilizations, sciences also pass through period of crises when established theories are overthrown by the unpredictable behaviour of events. Economics is passing through such a crisis. The challenge thrown by the Great Depression of early 1930s took a decade before Keynes re-established the supremacy of economics. But this supremacy has again been upset by the crisis of poverty in the vast under-developed world which attained political independence after the Second World War. Poverty had always existed but never before had it been of such concern to economists as during the past twenty five years or so. Economic literature dealing with this problem has piled up but so have the agonies of poverty. No plausible and well-integrated theory of economic development or under-development has emerged so far, though brilliant advances have been made in isolated directions.

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