ABSTRACT
This chapter brings together the differences with social class and area and presents some variations, particularly about education. Education was strongly associated with social class, and since so few mothers with a university training had husbands in manual occupations, 8 per cent, and so few mothers with no further education husbands in non-manual jobs, 17 per cent, it is both statistically and conceptually difficult to differentiate the two. Education appeared to have a greater effect than social class on mothers' sources of professional advice about birth control. Other differences — the proportions who had been to a university or training college, had a post natal examination, discussed family planning with a general practitioner and were currently using withdrawal — are clearly related to the social class composition of the areas. General practitioners in the north were less likely to raise family planning with patients in various circumstances.
