Now more than half of parents who split up are unmarried
by Steve Doughty, Mailonline:
More than half of break-ups among couples with children involve unmarried men and women, a study showed yesterday.
While there are nearly four times as many families with children headed by married couples, the number of break-ups among cohabitee parents is now higher, according to the Marriage Foundation think-tank.
It said 51.4 per cent of couples with children who parted last year were cohabitees and 48.1 per cent were married.
Analysing figures from the Office for National Statistics, it found a further 0.5 per cent were same-sex couples, thought to be divided almost equally between cohabitees and those who are married or civil partners.
It is estimated that in 2006, 45.3 per cent of family breakdowns were among cohabiting couples and 54.5 per cent among married parents. Family break-ups among unmarried couples living together are thought to have outnumbered those among married men and women for the first time in 2015.
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