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A simple policy on marriage for Mrs May

Government policy on marriage is lukewarm at best and downright ambivalent at worst. On the one hand, the state is terribly interested in marriage. We have strict laws on who can marry

Cheap sex, so why should men marry?

There’s a deep irony about the subject of marriage and men. On the one hand, marriage appears to benefit men more than women. Men’s health in particular, for example, is

Does marriage really get worse over time?

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 most studies have followed couples over the

Marriage at an all time low

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 3.4 per cent on the

Rich kids on benefits?

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 education and money. It’s not

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