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In fact, the tragedy of the Swedish woman is this very permissiveness which has taken her to the edge of such a terrifying and perilous precipice."[^4] The breakdown of family stability in Britain which has dramatically increased the number of unmarried mothers, of unmarried people living together and people living alone, is much to blame for these social ills. According to figures published by the British Government on Jan.

14, 1988, the percentage of illegitimate births has soared from 4% in the 1950s to 21% of all births in 1986, with the exception of Denmark with 43%, Britain has the highest rate in Europe. The statistics of social trends confirm that Britain has the highest divorce rate in Europe and nearly twice the rate of France and West Germany. Between 1979 and 1985, it was found that the proportion of people cohabiting without marriage nearly doubled.

Some 15% of all single women between the age of 18 and 49, including many divorced, were illicitly cohabiting in 1985. The breakdown in family life has also seen a rapid rise in the number of people living alone. Nearly 25% of all households contained only one person in 1986 compared with an average 10 persons in 1951! The way the woman…