ABSTRACT
The Divorce Reform Act, it can be seen, was one well-considered Act among many. The most conspicuous development which became apparent as the records of the 1960s became clearly known was the continuous increase in the number of divorces. This increase was one of the most marked facts that had to be taken into account for several reasons. The Family and Social Change by Rosser and Harris, had repeated, rather more extensively, in Swansea, the kind of study undertaken by Young and Willmott in Bethnal Green, and produced similar findings. The ‘extended family’, resting chiefly on the relationship between a wife and her mother, was found to be still important – as a basic unit of social identification and social support – despite industrial and urban change.
