British woman ...story was told ... in about 1918 the head of a girls’ school made an announcement —
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There was a great deal of unreported polygamy from 1918 thru the 1950’s in England. My father worked for the US Gov’t in Europe throughout the 1950’s ... this wasn’t just a problem in England.
It’s also estimated that 20-25% of British children born between 1940-46 were fathered by someone other than their mother’s husband. American serviceman probably had a lot to do with that, but still...