unmarried mother


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unmarried mother

n → ragazza f madre inv
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Responding, Akel MP Andreas Fakondis spoke of a double standard, in that an unmarried mother is entitled to maternity leave, whereas an unmarried father is not.
Government opposed to paternity leave for unmarried fathers
The Unmarried Mother (Sarah Snook), a writer of 'confessional stories' for women's magazines, bets he can tell the Barkeep (Ethan Hawke) the best story he's ever heard.
Stuck in time: intersex and transgender representation in Predestination
Album of the week offers to help an androgynous friend The Unmarried Mother (Sarah Snook), who was born with male and female sex organs, rewrite the past using his Coordinate Transformer Field Kit, concealed in a violin case.
Album of the week
Fifty-four percent of black children were being raised by an unmarried mother in the early 1990s; about 50 percent were in 2003.
Was Moynihan right? what happens to children of unmarried mothers
Pat Thane and Tanya Evans rely heavily upon the records of the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her Child (NCUMHC), which was established in 1918 and remains active today as Gingerbread.
Sinners? Scroungers? Saints?: Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England
Born in a mother and baby hospital to an unmarried mother, Lorraine was fostered from birth until she was adopted at the age of 18 months.
Fostering a more honest approach
Flashing back to a young unmarried mother confined to a life of drudgery and privation in the convent's laundry at Roscrea, given access to her son for only one hour a day, Philomena was powerless to stop the nuns selling her beloved three-year-old boy to a wealthy, childless American couple.
Philomena
The editors suggest, on the basis of a single, undated inter-governmental committee report, that unmarried mother were retained for such long periods because they provided the free labour on which the institutions depended to function properly.
Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents
Among the revelations we can look forward to are those surrounding her great-great-grandmother who, after becoming an unmarried mother, was called before the elders of her church to discuss her 'sins'.
BEST WELL I NEVER KNEW THAT
Not surprisingly, the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child was less enthusiastic about adoption, explaining that it was important to have benefits and assistance available so that unmarried mothers did not have to part with their children.
A Child for Keeps: The history of adoption in England, 1918-45
Her career almost ended before it began after she became pregnant at 17 but she survived the scandal of being a young unmarried mother to become a massive star, scoring hits including the themes to the James Bond films Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever.
Actress goes from being a misfit to a Welsh diva in Shirley Bassey biopic
Perhaps one of the author's subsequent novels will be about Kate's life as a young unmarried mother.
Her daughter's eyes. (Paperback Fiction)

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