Statistics and surveys may show that getting hitched is falling out of fashion but, as soon as children come along, every woman would rather be wed.
Are you sitting comfortably? Or at least sitting? Because further down this page I am going to make the sort of bold, incendiary statement that will divide – but also, I hope, unite – couples at a moment when a blizzard of anti-marriage headlines makes it almost impossible to discern a future for an institution that has been a cornerstone of our society.
First, a little background. According to research from the Centre for Social Justice, marriage is being abandoned to the point where it’s estimated that by 2031 only 57 per cent of families will be headed by a married couple, falling to just 49.5 per cent by 2047. Read more
Sources
- Judith Woods in The Telegraph
- Image: St Mary’s Ontario Canada
Judith Woods writes features for the Daily Telegraph