Synopsis
The story of the revolution in modern fatherhood in Britain during the last 100 years. How did fathers cope after returning home after the Second World War?
- Programme: A Century Of Fatherhood
- Episode: Fathers at War
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2010
- Sociology | How are family life and relationships changing? | Nuclear families, extended families, lone parent families, reconstituted families, same-sex families, non-family households, lone-person households. Family life and diversity: emerging family types, trends in marriage, divorce and cohabitation. Demographic changes: birth rate, family size, age at marriage, age of childbearing, ageing population.
Licence: ERA Licence required
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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