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This book highlights how the plight of single mothers, the problem of funding pensioners, and the future of the welfare state, all depend on demographic trends in society.
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Essential for an understanding of the major social, economic and political issues of the 1990s, facts about the changing structure and underlying trends of Britains population also have a direct influence on policy and decision making in central and local government.
Britains Population presents a broad overview of the most important population changes in the past, the principal characteristics of contemporary population patterns, and likely future trends. Examining key features of population changes over time, Stephen Jackson considers issues of fertility, mortality and migration, and attitudes to marriage and family formation - examining events such as the baby boom of the 1960s.
Relating changes in the past to contemporary features, Jackson explores current trends which include double income no kids yet partners, the thirty-something mother, the plight of the single parent family, and problems of an ageing and dependent population.
Examining the future of the welfare state alongside demograp