2018: Reasons to be cheerful!
by Harry Benson, Marriage Foundation:
[…] While it’s all too easy to focus on the bad news of family breakdown around us, I hope I can encourage you to join me in entering a new year with a renewed sense of optimism for family life and the state of marriage.
Here are seven reasons to start 2018 on a positive note:
- Most marriages still last for life. Yes, when even the BBC misleadingly claims that the average marriage lasts a little over a decade, in fact this only applies to marriages that end in divorce (it’s now 12 years). ONS estimate that the overall divorce rate for a couple marrying in 2011 was 42 per cent (we now put it at 38 per cent). That means the majority of marriages last for life.
- Most parents stay together if they married before having children. In a study we did two years ago, we found that 76 per cent of parents with 14 or 15 year olds were still together if they were married before their child was born. Only 44 per cent were still together if they married later on and 31 per cent if they never married at all.
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