Insights, reflections and commentary from our team on marriage, commitment and family life — exploring the stories and ideas behind our research.
In response to a report from the Women and Equalities Committee on rights for cohabiting couples – to which we submitted evidence last year –
This article was first published in August by Conservative Woman During the lockdown restrictions of 2020, marriage rates fell in every country in Europe except
New figures from the Ministry of Justice show that divorce applications in the second quarter of this year reached the highest levels in a decade.
This month the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee published proposals to give rights to unmarried cohabiting couples that are similar or equal to
New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that more than half of all births in England & Wales are now to unmarried parents
Watch the full video here Politicians I am stood here today because quite frankly I’m astonished that other politicians don’t speak about marriage publicly in
This is one of several talks I gave in Prague in February 2022 to celebrate Czech marriage week (reading time 10 minutes) It would be
“One often hears that couples stay together for the sake of children, not often that do it for the sake of each other” says Simon
FRAGMENTED FAMILIES Sir, Melanie Phillips’s excellent article (“Family fragmentation comes at a tragic cost”, Comment, Dec 21) could have been written after any of the
I’ve written about this subject before. But having just been to parliament to give evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee, it’s worth going over
I’ve been somewhat immersed in all things Hungary during the past few weeks. Last month, I was invited to an international conference on the family
In the budget this week, the Chancellor announced a couple of things that will benefit quite a lot of families in the short term. But