'More single parent homes in 1800s'

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Single parent family
Single parent family

Couples with large age gaps, and the number of single-parent households, were more common in Victorian Britain than they are today, according to new research.


A study of census records from the 1800s by family history website Ancestry.co.uk showed there were twice as many couples with an age gap of at least 10 years compared to the present day.
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