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1965 to 1979
the history of Leyton and Leytonstone
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The Role of Women
From 1968 unmarried women could buy contraceptive pills legally. For some years afterwards fewer babies were born to unmarried mothers. Adoption of babies and children by substitute parents fell from 25,000 in 1968 to 5,000 in 2000 1.