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Civil Partnerships for Heterosexual Couples?

A heterosexual couple have lost their legal battle to be allowed to enter into a civil partnership. Rebecca Steinfeld, 34, and Charles Keidan, 39, are both academics who live in Hammersmith, west London and are engaged and have been in a relationship for over five years. The couple also have a young son together.

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Curbing family breakdown could halve the deficit

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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Cohabitation no longer predicts divorce

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.

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Cohabitation not divorce to blame for family breakdown, says think tank

Pro-marriage think tank, the Marriage Foundation, has published details of its response to the Department of Work and Pensions’ Family Stability Review.

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