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Lifetime divorce risk: Back to the 1960s

Unfulfilled aspirations: half of teens will never marry

Men behaving better 

Family stability improves as divorce rates fall

Actual divorce rates down by half

Mummy’s Boys, Daddy’s Girls and Teenage Mental Health

Seddons / Populus Polling for Marriage Week 2018

Family planning

Cost of Family Breakdown

The long term effects of marriage on social mobility

Family breakdown has a major influence on teen mental health

“Marriage-rich” cabinet need to back marriage

Keeping up with the neighbours: the influence of local wealth and faith on marriage

Annual family breakdown in the UK

Kindness – What mothers want (and dads need to know)

Couples on the brink

Children in unhappy households this Christmas

Divorce rates plummet to 1975 levels

Does religion help couples stay together?

“Date nights” strengthen marriages

Europe’s marriage gap between rich and poor

Marriage boosts self-esteem for teenage boys and girls

Vanishing divorce

Celebrity divorce rates

Happy Families: Men Behaving Better

Out Of The Blue: Family Breakdown in the UK

Middle classes shun marriage

The Marriage Gap: The rich get married (and stay together). The poor don’t

The cost to Britain’s children of the trend away from marriage

Get married before you have children

One in three children face Christmas without both birth parents

Divided Nation: The different futures for those who marry, or don’t

UK lone parent capital of Western Europe

Nearly half of today’s 20 year olds will never marry

New marriages stronger for 8th year running

Marriage Foundation’s response to the DWP Family Stability Review

Unmarried parents account for one fifth of couples but half of all family breakdown

New-born babies to suffer highest rates of family breakdown since records began

Quarter of a million couples pretend to live apart

Divorce rates immune from boom and bust

The myth of long-term stable relationships outside of marriage

Second marriages are less likely to end in divorce than first

Startling new MF research on UK divorce rate

Celebrities twice as likely to divorce as the rest of the married UK population

Modern men make better husbands, says new study