Just 1-in-5 Marriages Were Religious in UK, Dozens of Religious Gay Weddings Celebrated
by Victoria Friedman, Breitbart:
Just one in five (21.1 per cent) of traditional, opposite-sex marriages in 2018 were religious ceremonies, the lowest on record, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The UK’s official statistics body also noted that all marriages for straight couples were at the lowest on record in 2018, continuing the “gradual long-term decline in both numbers and rates since the early 1970s”.
Another trend since the ’70s is for the average age of marriage to be increasing, with the mean age at marriage for straight couples being 38.1 years for men and 35.8 years for women.
Further tears in the traditional social fabric in Britain revealed last year that the fertility rate for women under 30 was at its lowest level since 1938.
While last week, ONS statistics showed that in 2018, one-quarter of all pregnancies in England and Wales ended in abortion.
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