Pro-marriage think tank, the Marriage Foundation, has put forward its “alternative budget”, in which it claims that by taking measures to address the ‘epidemic’ of family fragmentation, the Chancellor could save up to half of the annual £46 billion cost of relationship breakdown.
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For more than 20 years, researchers have reported that premarital cohabitation is associated with an elevated risk of divorce. However, a recent report from America has cast doubt on this assumption.
...A new study from the national charity CAADA has found that two thirds of children exposed to domestic abuse had experienced direct child abuse, in addition to witnessing the abuse of a parent. Despite this, only half (54%) of the children exposed to domestic abuse were known to Children's Social Care.
...A new service launched this month is making it easier for businesses to meet their legal obligation to deduct child maintenance from employees’ wages.
...The Pensions Advisory Service (PAS) has launched a new guide to help people think through the issues they need to consider around pensions when going through a divorce, separation or dissolution process.
...Hundreds of grandparents and family (kinship) carers across the country are joining forces to take part in a new campaign to raise awareness and much needed funds for the 200,000 grandparent and family carers raising up to 300,000 children in the UK.
...Women with a severe mental health-related disability are nearly four times more likely to have been a victim of intimate partner violence than those without a disability, according to a new study by Women’s College Hospital.
...Recent figures from New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs have revealed a large number of same sex marriages have taken place in the country since same sex couples were given the right to marry in August 2013.
...Pro-marriage think tank, the Marriage Foundation, has published details of its response to the Department of Work and Pensions’ Family Stability Review.
...Over 5,000 people have revealed how they are keeping their relationships happy and healthy, as part of a major two-year study into modern couples funded by the Economic & Social Research Council.
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