Griselda Rowntree
Biographic Data
| ID | 413837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Griselda Rowntree |
| GIVEN NAMES | Griselda |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowntree |
| SIGNATURE | ROWNTREE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Transnational Press London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feminism and Family Planning in Victorian England
Some aspects of marriage breakdown in Britain during the last thirty years
Following the five-fold increase in divorce petitions during the Second World War, there has been much publicly expressed concern with marriage breakdown. The voluntary marriage guidance movement started just before the war and in recent years has greatly extended its activities with the object of reducing marital disharmony and reconciling estranged couples.1 The official history of the movement and an analysis of its activities has been compile…
Dark Strangers
School Leavers, Their Aspirations and Expectations
Family Allowances. An Analysis of their Development and Implications
West Indian Family Structure
This article examines the variations in family structure found in the West Indies, challenging the then-dominant view of a uniform matrifocal family system. It argues that family organization is influenced by ecological and economic factors, leading to diverse forms such as nuclear, extended, and single-parent families. The study highlights the importance of considering historical and social contexts when analyzing family structures in the region…
Birth Control in Britain: Part I
The first nationally representative study of attitudes to contraception and of birth control practices has recently been undertaken by the Population Investigation Committee in collaboration with Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Ltd. This paper presents some of the results obtained from interviews with about 2,350 men and women married since the first World War; almost all of these people were prepared to talk fairly freely about contraception, thoug…
Birth Control in Britain
American Marriage and Divorce
Birth control in Britain: Part II
This paper examines the contraceptive methods adopted by the men and women married between 1930 and 1960 who participated in the Population Investigation Committee's nationally representative Marriage Survey. In contrast to American patterns, withdrawal (coitus interruptus) was almost as popular in Britain as the sheath (or condom), each of these methods being adopted at some time by nearly half the users. The “safe period” or rhythm method (16 p…
Family Planning, Sterility and Population Growth
Marriage was Made for Man. A Study of the Problem of Marriage and Divorce in Relation to the Church of England
Marriage Counselling
Work in the Lives of Married Women
The Sexual, Marital and Family Relationships of the English Woman
The resort to divorce in England and Wales, 1858-1957
This paper consists of a statistical analysis of the increasing resort to divorce in England and Wales over the past hundred years. In view of the social, financial and procedural barriers surrounding the Divorce Court over most of the period it is impossible to regard the spread of divorce as an index of increasing marital breakdown. It indicates merely the greater ability and willingness of estranged couples to take advantage of the legal machi…
The Divorce Court
Books reviews
The Family in the American Economy
Early childhood in broken families
In the course of a national questionnaire inquiry concerning child health and development, the growth and behaviour of young children living in broken families was compared with those of a matched sample of children living in stable households. It was found that while home circumstances differed considerably, the children of broken homes were not excessively retarded, nor on the whole were they more prone to suffer from childhood ailments or beha…
Les Mariages en France
Books reviews
The Finances of Founding a Family
Prosperity and Parenthood. A Study of Family Planning among the Victorian Middle Classes
In the last half of the 19th century, affluent English families began to practise family limitation, for which various explanations have been offered. This study examines economic factors as a reason, concluding that although they played a part, they cannot be the sole reason for the occurrence
Supplementary child health services. Part III. Infant welfare centres
The findings of the Maternity Survey on the use of infant welfare centres were confirmed in the Follow-up Survey carried out two years later. 68.7% of all the survey mothers used centres, and the children of manual workers (72.0%) and of the black-coated workers (71.4%) were taken more than those of the professional and salaried (59.7 %). Attendance at centres was more common in the towns than in the rural areas, where mothers often had to travel…
West Indian Family Structure
This article examines the variations in family structure found in the West Indies, challenging the then-dominant view of a uniform matrifocal family system. It argues that family organization is influenced by ecological and economic factors, leading to diverse forms such as nuclear, extended, and single-parent families. The study highlights the importance of considering historical and social contexts when analyzing family structures in the region…
Birth Control in Britain
The resort to divorce in England and Wales, 1858-1957
This paper consists of a statistical analysis of the increasing resort to divorce in England and Wales over the past hundred years. In view of the social, financial and procedural barriers surrounding the Divorce Court over most of the period it is impossible to regard the spread of divorce as an index of increasing marital breakdown. It indicates merely the greater ability and willingness of estranged couples to take advantage of the legal machi…
The Finances of Founding a Family
Birth control in Britain: Part II
This paper examines the contraceptive methods adopted by the men and women married between 1930 and 1960 who participated in the Population Investigation Committee's nationally representative Marriage Survey. In contrast to American patterns, withdrawal (coitus interruptus) was almost as popular in Britain as the sheath (or condom), each of these methods being adopted at some time by nearly half the users. The “safe period” or rhythm method (16 p…
Supplementary maternal and child health services. Part I. Post-natal care. Part II. Nurseries
Women interviewed during the maternity survey in 1946 were revisited 2 years later and asked questions relating to post-natal care and ill-health attributed by them to childbearing. Only 45 % had had a post-natal examination. This low figure may be attributed on the one hand to lack of facilities for examination and for care of children while their mothers are being examined and, on the other, to failure to emphasize at ante-natal clinics and aft…
Supplementary child health services. Part III. Infant welfare centres
The findings of the Maternity Survey on the use of infant welfare centres were confirmed in the Follow-up Survey carried out two years later. 68.7% of all the survey mothers used centres, and the children of manual workers (72.0%) and of the black-coated workers (71.4%) were taken more than those of the professional and salaried (59.7 %). Attendance at centres was more common in the towns than in the rural areas, where mothers often had to travel…
Books reviews
The Finances of Founding a Family
Prosperity and Parenthood. A Study of Family Planning among the Victorian Middle Classes
In the last half of the 19th century, affluent English families began to practise family limitation, for which various explanations have been offered. This study examines economic factors as a reason, concluding that although they played a part, they cannot be the sole reason for the occurrence
Books reviews
The Family in the American Economy
Early childhood in broken families
In the course of a national questionnaire inquiry concerning child health and development, the growth and behaviour of young children living in broken families was compared with those of a matched sample of children living in stable households. It was found that while home circumstances differed considerably, the children of broken homes were not excessively retarded, nor on the whole were they more prone to suffer from childhood ailments or beha…
Les Mariages en France
The Sexual, Marital and Family Relationships of the English Woman
The resort to divorce in England and Wales, 1858-1957
This paper consists of a statistical analysis of the increasing resort to divorce in England and Wales over the past hundred years. In view of the social, financial and procedural barriers surrounding the Divorce Court over most of the period it is impossible to regard the spread of divorce as an index of increasing marital breakdown. It indicates merely the greater ability and willingness of estranged couples to take advantage of the legal machi…
The Divorce Court
Marriage was Made for Man. A Study of the Problem of Marriage and Divorce in Relation to the Church of England
Marriage Counselling
Work in the Lives of Married Women
Family Planning, Sterility and Population Growth
Birth Control in Britain: Part I
The first nationally representative study of attitudes to contraception and of birth control practices has recently been undertaken by the Population Investigation Committee in collaboration with Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Ltd. This paper presents some of the results obtained from interviews with about 2,350 men and women married since the first World War; almost all of these people were prepared to talk fairly freely about contraception, thoug…
Birth Control in Britain
American Marriage and Divorce
Birth control in Britain: Part II
This paper examines the contraceptive methods adopted by the men and women married between 1930 and 1960 who participated in the Population Investigation Committee's nationally representative Marriage Survey. In contrast to American patterns, withdrawal (coitus interruptus) was almost as popular in Britain as the sheath (or condom), each of these methods being adopted at some time by nearly half the users. The “safe period” or rhythm method (16 p…
School Leavers, Their Aspirations and Expectations
Family Allowances. An Analysis of their Development and Implications
West Indian Family Structure
This article examines the variations in family structure found in the West Indies, challenging the then-dominant view of a uniform matrifocal family system. It argues that family organization is influenced by ecological and economic factors, leading to diverse forms such as nuclear, extended, and single-parent families. The study highlights the importance of considering historical and social contexts when analyzing family structures in the region…
Some aspects of marriage breakdown in Britain during the last thirty years
Following the five-fold increase in divorce petitions during the Second World War, there has been much publicly expressed concern with marriage breakdown. The voluntary marriage guidance movement started just before the war and in recent years has greatly extended its activities with the object of reducing marital disharmony and reconciling estranged couples.1 The official history of the movement and an analysis of its activities has been compile…
Dark Strangers
Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · History (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Population (6 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (5 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (5 works)