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1971: Mums of the 70s | BBC Archive
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20:31Now PlayingWhat are mums like in the early 1970s?
Reporter Adella Kincaid looks at what children think of the modern mother, with much discussion around stay-at-home mothers versus working mothers. Then a group of children from Hackney (many of them "Latchkey kids") discuss her findings with sociologist Robert Rapoport and presenter John Craven in studio.
Clip taken from Search, originally broadcast on the 8th December, 1971.
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