Research and Evaluation of context
margret thatcher 1980s saw the end of the traditional family unit for many. Divorce rates reached 13.4 per 1,000 married population in 1985, although that wasn't as high as the peak of 1994 after the recession. They have gone down now . The most recent figures show that 119,589 people got divorced in 2010, roughly half of the number of people who got married the same year. As Britain learnt to come to terms with the idea of "no such thing as society", unemployment shot up under the Conservatives to levels not seen since the Great Depression. The figures show how it lags behind the economy - even after the recession was over, many were unemployed. From this research i have learnt that the number of divorce rate went up and this relates to the play Teechers because maybe not all the children had both parents to look after them and help them financially hence why they go to community schools. Also with the rate of divorcement that happened it could be