Disturbing to read that married people in the UK have become a minority for the first time, according to official figures yesterday. They indicate that the number of people who are husbands or wives has dropped to below half the population and is continuing to fall.
Most people over 16 are now single, divorced or widowed, the Office for National Statistics said. The shift in the decline of marriage has come as millions of young people have chosen to live together as cohabiting partners rather than to marry and have children.
I guess the liberals have prevailed. We have the historically successful model of marriage now being discarded and society will sew what it reaps. To my mind, marriage is the best mechanism for societal stability and the best buttress against the Nanny State. But we turn our backs on it because we know so much better than the generations that have gone before us...right?
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