Pro-marriage think tank, the Marriage Foundation, has published details of its response to the Department of Work and Pensions’ Family Stability Review.
The DWP Review has been set up to assess measures to support family stability and make recommendations on how this can be best achieved in the future.
In its response, the Foundation claims that the main cause of family breakdown is not the failure of marriages but the failure of cohabiting relationships.
According to Harry Benson from the Marriage Foundation, cohabitation has become much more socially acceptable and there is much less social pressure to marry. However, the Foundation believes that cohabiting relationships are relatively unstable compared to married ones and contribute more to the level of family breakdown.
“The contribution of unmarried couples to family breakdown relies on the popularity of cohabitation,” says the Marriage Foundation.
“The result of ever more couples living as unmarried cohabitees has been the continued rise in lone parent family formation, again evidenced by a further doubling of lone parent households between 1980 and today.”
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