Marriage is on the rocks in Great Britain
"The number of couples marrying in Britain has fallen to a record low, official figures have shown. The annual wedding count dropped by more than a tenth last year - the biggest peacetime decline since records began more than a century ago.
The increasingly marginal importance of marriage to millions means that for the first time married people are set to become a minority. The proportion of married people among the adult population is now only a fraction over half at 50.3 per cent. That compares with 54 per cent in 1997 and more than two thirds in the 1970s. Experts blamed the fall on political indifference to marriage, which means there are no longer tax or benefits advantages to getting married."
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