Government under pressure to back marriage as cost of family breakdown hits £51 billion
PRESS RELEASE FOR UK MARRIAGE WEEK Date: 29 January 2018 Government under pressure to back marriage as cost of family breakdown hits £51 billion Family support minister Kit Malthouse will face questioning today by MPs (Tuesday 30th) over the Government’s failure to back marriage as the best structure for stable families. The debate in Parliament […]
Get married to keep kids off benefits, finds new report
British adults whose parents were married at the time of their birth were 16 per cent less likely to ever receive benefits, a new study by Marriage Foundation has found. They were also 23 percent more likely to have been to university and 10 percent more likely to have got married themselves. Although overall adults […]
Rich kids on benefits?
One of the most common critiques of the supposed advantages of marriage is that married adults and their children only do better because of their education and money. It’s not marriage that conveys the advantages of life. It’s just that those who are better educated are more likely to get married. They then go on […]
Divorce day: the grain of truth behind the hype
It comes up every year. January is supposedly the month when lawyers and counsellors say they get more new enquiries than in any other month. And the first working Monday of the year, today, is supposedly “divorce day” – the busiest day of the year. But is there any truth to this or is it merely […]
Hopelessly unhappy? Drifting apart? Before you give up hope for your marriage, read this …
(Reproduced from January 2018) I know. Maybe your marriage is a mess. It’s drifting, it’s become functional, it’s lost the love and it’s not what you dreamed. In short it needs a kick up the backside. Maybe you’ve even finally decided it’s over. At last you’ve summoned up the courage to call it a day. […]