Family Unfriendly Britain
Harry Benson will be speaking at the Budapest Demographic Summit 14/15 September If the UK has any kind of family policy, it revolves around childcare
September 11, 2023
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Understanding family stability and informing the debate about marriage and commitment.
Dr Harry Benson’s PhD Summary: ‘The Timing of Marriage and Union Dissolution’, our Research Director’s PhD Thesis.
At Marriage Foundation, our research focuses on understanding the realities of family stability and instability: what happens to couples and their children; who stays together; and why some relationships break down. By grounding the public conversation in evidence rather than assumption, our work helps build a clearer understanding of the measurable significance of marriage.
Harry Benson will be speaking at the Budapest Demographic Summit 14/15 September If the UK has any kind of family policy, it revolves around childcare
By the age of 14, 46% of UK children are not living with both natural parents. This is data from 4,476 first born children in
The importance of family economics (e.g. incomes) is well known and well represented in research and government policy on education. What is frequently overlooked in
Top Family judge calls on senior politicians to break their decade of silence on the importance of marriage Sir Paul Coleridge, who was a senior
Money may not buy you happiness. But it does generally increase your odds of happily ever after. Married or not, the rich are generally more
Couples who “slide into marriage”, because of family pressure are up to 50 per cent likely to divorce than those who marry for love, finds
Our analysis of new data from Eurostat shows that marriage rates fell in every European country during 2020, the first year of lockdown, except one.
KEY FINDINGS Nearly nine in 10 parents still together with children aged 13-15 are married Cohabiting parents three times more likely to break-up Stability gap
According to the website Hitched, the average UK wedding costs an eye-watering £31,974. This high perceived cost acts as a major barrier to marriage. In
During their first ten years of marriage, one in three couples say they wouldn’t still be together had they not got married. One in four
In our latest paper – covered by the Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday – we analyse data from the survey we commissioned from Savanta
New Marriage Foundation research finds one in five UK weddings involve prenups and that they neither increase nor reduce the risk of divorce Prenuptial agreements