Trend: Married couples- a minority by next year (UK)
Married couples will be in the minority by next year, new figures suggest, as increasing numbers choose to live together out of wedlock. Research from the Millennium Cohort Study has shown that married parents are more than twice as likely to stay together than those who are unwed.
Anastasia de Waal, director of family and education at think tank Civitas said, ”We know that households where there are children but the parents aren’t married are much more likely to break up. That’s worrying because we know the impact it has on poverty.
“The Government is trying to tackle child poverty but it’s overseeing a key route into it.”
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