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UK Marriage Index 2010 photograph

UK Marriage Index 2010

John Hayward, February 2010

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Marriage rates in England and Wales have fallen to their lowest level since records began in 1862. This need not necessarily be a bad thing as the number of marriages in a given year may mask, for instance, the fact that there were an unusually high number of marriages in the previous year or that most people are already married. More worryingly, however, a broader measure of the health of marriage introduced by the Jubilee Centre in 2009 has also dropped to a new low, dipping below 60 per cent for the first time.

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