The Imprint of Time: Childhood, History, and Adult Life

This book analyzes a National Survey of Health and Development study of more than five thousand English, Welsh, and Scottish men and women from their birth in 1946 to their middle adulthood in 1989. The study began began two years before the National Health Service started, and shortly after the 1944 Education Act began to implement changes intended to reduce barriers to educational opportunity. Wadsworth shows how the study's members' circumstances and experiences as children and adolescents during this period were reflected in their adult way of life, and contrasts childhood in the early-post-war years with that of the members first-born children as they grew up in the 1970s and 1980s.Wadsworth, M. E. is the author of 'The Imprint of Time: Childhood, History, and Adult Life', published 1991 under ISBN 9780198273608 and ISBN 0198273606.