Children's family circumstances: recent trends in Great Britain

"In the last two decades there have been marked changes in the structure and dynamics of families in Britain. The primary aim of this paper is to present some data on recent changes in family life from the perspective of children. Our main concern will be the family circumstances, or living arrangements, of children and their experience of living in a lone-parent family.... Such information has important policy implications for issues concerning child care and support, from the need for financial provision generally to the legal decisions concerning the custodianship of children after divorce." (SUMMARY IN FRE)