Marriage counselling, once an embarrassing admission of failure between couples, is now a popular way for Irish couples to maintain a healthy union amidst the stresses and strains of modern life. Concerned by skyrocketing divorce rates in the UK, the Church of England last month introduced its guide to the perfect marriage — the first-ever attempt by the church to offer marital advice long after happy couples had left the altar. Nearly one in four children in Britain now live in single-parent families and while the number of divorces in Britain peaked in 1993 at 180,000, there were 167,000 divorces in 2004.
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