论20世纪下半叶英国单亲家庭的变化特点

On the Changes of the Lone-Parent Families in the Second Half of the Twentieth-Century Britain

20世纪下半叶,尤其自60年代后,英国的人口结构和经济结构发生了一系列显著的变化,使得英国单亲家庭出现了不同于以往时期的新特点:一是单亲家庭的数量和比重迅速上升;二是单身母亲家庭的增长快于单身父亲家庭;三是单亲家庭的结构变得更加复杂。

Since the second half of the 20th century, especially since 1960s, the British population structure and economic struc- ture has undergone a series of significant changes, so British lone-parent families present some new characteristics： First, the a- mount and proportion of lone-parent families have been rising rapidly; Secondly, the lone-mother families grow faster than the lone-father families; Thirdly, the structure of the lone-parent families becomes more complicated.