Research Papers

A new survey of 291 mothers reveals that most mothers still tend to take responsibility for the majority of the childcare and domestic chores. More than

New Marriage Foundation research reveals the majority of couples who are unhappy when their first child is born are happy ten years later if they stay together.

Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain stunned the programme’s contemporary audience with her traditional views on family and her pride in her role providing

Marriage Foundation research finds couples who go on occasional date nights have 14 per cent lower odds of their relationship breaking down – but only

Low income parents in Scandinavia are amongst the least likely in Europe to be married, according to new research by Marriage Foundation. Norway, Sweden, Finland

New research by Marriage Foundation shows that marriage significantly improves the self-esteem of teenagers and improves their life chances. In the first ever UK report

Couples who have been married fifty years are over 200 times more likely to become centenarians than get a divorce, new research from Marriage Foundation

New research from Marriage Foundation has found celebrities are twice as likely to divorce as the rest of us. Marriage Foundation, the think tank founded

According to the Office for National Statistics, overall crude divorce rates are down by one third from the peak levels in the early 1990s and

Our new analysis of data from the UK survey Understanding Society shows that high conflict warring couples are a rarity among couples who split. The

New analysis of data from the Family Resources Survey and the General Household Survey shows that the trend away from marriage was largely confined to

According to the Office for National Statistics, 53% of births are to married parents. However this total figure conceals a dramatic variation in the prevalence