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The estimated number of children in Great Britain in 1971 living with one parent only because their parents are divorced or separated, or one of them has died, or the parents were never married to each other, is set out in Table III, produced by the Department of Health and Social Security:1
Estimate (in thousands) of Number of One-Parent Families with Dependent Children Resulting from Illegitimacy, Factual Separation, Death and Divorce: Great Britain 1971
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See Guardianship Act 1973, s. 1. See also J. C. Hall, ‘The waning of parental rights’, 31 CLJ (1972) 248–65;
J. Eekelaar, ‘What are parental rights? 89 LQR (1973) 210–34.
Noticeably after the resentment in the medical profession at the suggestion by Harman L.J. in Re C. (M.A.) (An Infant) [1966] 1 W.L.R. 646, 675 at B, that expert medical witnesses gave evidence in favour of those paying them. The medical profession rightly pointed out that it was the solicitors who frustrated their attempts to see both parties, and the judges who refused to have court experts appointed, preferring to have conflicting evidence from experts retained by both sides. Since then the Court of Appeal has said that disputing parents should, where possible, co-operate in obtaining expert medical opinion: B (M.) v. B (R.) [1968] 1 W.L.R. 1182 C.A. 1184, confirming the observations to this effect of Cross J. in Re S. (Infants) [1967] 1 W.L.R. 396, 407 D.
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Stone, O.M. (1977). Orders for the Care and Control of Children of Separated Parents. In: Family Law. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86147-7_8
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