Source: Office for National Statistics – Births in England and Wales
Notes:
- A birth within marriage/civil partnership is that of a child born to parents who were lawfully married/in a civil partnership either, a) at the date of the child’s birth, or b) when the child was conceived, even if they later divorced/were granted a civil partnership dissolution or the father/second parent died before the child’s birth.
Key dates | |
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1939 - 1945 | Second World War |
1961 | Introduction of the contraceptive pill |
1967 | Family Planning Act Enabled local authorities to open family planning clinics. |
1967 | Abortion Act Legalised abortion under 28 weeks free on the NHS. |