Over the last few decades, families in many highly developed nations (such as Great Britain) have been held together by grandparents. Yet as single motherhood spreads into this generation, extended fa
The traditional role of the grandmother in contemporary Western society is changing. Driven in part by the increasing participation of women in the workplace, as well as declines in family stability,
Michael Young wrote The Rise of Meritocracy shortly after founding the Institute of Community Studies in 1954, but his ideas were barely incorporated into the work of the Institute. To mark its half-c
