“I’ve just found out I’m his fourth Baby Mother.” But something in the way she says it tells you she doesn’t hate him.
Already Lisa is getting used to the idea of living life without a long-term partner She’ll not be on her own. Inside her is a three-month-old baby, the result of a fly-by-night affair with a 25-year-old black man “I hate him,” she says of the father. Right now she is sitting hunched over a cardboard cup in Brixton’s McDonald’s, her knees tucked into her stomach. I suppose it’s a good thing in a lot of ways, but it doesn’t interest me.”Nick, 19, Barry, 17, John, 23, media studies students: “It won’t change our lives at all I don’t think it’ll change anybody’s We don’t really drink on Sundays.

It won’t make us drink any more.”Frank, 37, kitchen porter: “I won’t drink any more It won’t make the slightest difference.”. `All men want women who will serve them.’

Esther Oxford finds out why six out of ten black women aged 20 to 39 are without a partner Lisa is a 15-year-old schoolgirl with almond eyes and sleek black skin. It’s a good idea.”Lockie, 27, homeless, Big Issue seller: “It won’t change my life because I don’t drink I don’t think it’ll make people drink any more. I think it’s been better since opening hours have been longer. You don’t have to rush about drinking.”Joyce Wheeler, 62, retired: “I don’t really agree with it I’m not a drinker for a start.

You’ll be down the pub all day then, instead of in your garden drinking with your friends I don’t think I’ll drink more. Although I’m not very religious, I think Sunday is being eroded and that there is no special day of the week now, and that’s a greatpity.”Amanda Reeves, 25, insurance broker: “It might affect me in summer. It won’t make me go out and buy alcohol.”Sheila, Rachel, Sarah, 18 and 19, students: “The only difference it’ll make is if you work in a pub in the holidays It might encourage people to go to pubs more. But if you want alcohol you can buy it on Saturday anyway, so it’s just more convenient.”Name withheld, middle-aged woman: “I’m in the licence trade and I think it’s a good thing because it’s the only day when a lot of people can sit and relax and have a drink. A lot of people work six days a week, and when they go out for a quiet drink they’re thrown out as soon as they get in.