Signs that Gen Z want marriage
May I wish you a very happy Marriage Week, running up to Valentine’s day. This is a particularly good time to think about marriage and
February 11, 2025
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May I wish you a very happy Marriage Week, running up to Valentine’s day. This is a particularly good time to think about marriage and
A Conservative MP has called for a ban on cousin marriages. His proposed bill is unlikely to proceed further without government backing. His main argument
Lockdown’s missing marriages The latest figures for marriages in England & Wales in 2021 and 2022 were released today by the Office for National Statistics.
I’ve done a very quick review of the family policies of the five main parties, so you don’t have to. Please note that this implies
It’s now a decade since any cabinet minister made a speech that included the importance of marriage. This public silence is at odds with their
(I wrote this five years ago but it’s every bit as relevant today, Harry) I know. Maybe your marriage is a mess. It’s drifting, it’s
Last week I had the great honour of presenting at the Budapest Demographic Summit. The conference was a celebration of Hungary’s ‘family friendly’ policies that
Today marks the launch of the Church of England’s report on Families and Households. You can download and read the report for yourself here. We
Law changes have produced an expected blip in divorce at worst. Ministry of Justice family court statistics up to the end of December 2022 came
This week the chancellor announced that from 2025 parents will be offered free childcare for their children as young as 9 months old. Whereas parents
New births data for 2021 from the Office for National Statistics showed a sharp fall in births within marriage to below 50% for the first
The Mail and Times are both reporting the latest Office for National Statistics figures on divorces in England & Wales for 2021, up 9.6% on