Prosperity and Parenthood: A Study of Family Planning Among the Victorian Middle Classes

First Published in 1954, Prosperity and Parenthood is a study of Victorian middle-class ideas about the standard of living, marriage, and the responsibilities of family life.This is an important work for students and scholars of sociology, sociology of family, British sociology, social history, and medical sociology.

Joseph Ambrose Banks sociologist, born January 5, 1920; died November 13, 2005. He was the leading authority of his generation on the Victorian family and its rapid reduction in size. At the time of the publication of this book, he was at the University of Liverpool, the Department of social science.