Insights, reflections and commentary from our team on marriage, commitment and family life — exploring the stories and ideas behind our research.
Channel 4 is at it again, recruiting single people to take part in the fourth series of their reality programme Married at first sight. In
Ever since the 1930s, conventional wisdom among researchers has been that marriage tends to start off looking good and then gradually deteriorates over time. Although
Over the weekend, the Prime Minister reaffirmed her commitment to encouraging “fathers to share caring roles more fairly, through initiatives such as shared parental leave, and
The Church of England has just released its response to the Department for Education consultation on Relationship and Sex Education (“RSE”) in schools. The really
Today’s release from the Office for National Statistics reveals that marriage has hit an all-time low. The number of weddings in 2015 was 239,020, down
There’s a very simple equation. Less marriage = more unmarried cohabitation = more family instability The reason is that marriage is inherently stable whereas cohabitation
Children should know … … The upsides of healthy relationships When relationships go right, couples who stay together tend to be happier, healthier and
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
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.
(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
It shouldn’t be contentious. Yet somehow it is. You might imagine that the way our parents behave towards each other and how they behave towards
For the last few years, it’s become apparent that the trend away from marriage has at least paused, if not necessarily stopped. We have seen