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According to UK charity CARE, 36% of conceptions outside marriage end in abortion.
Family	Prayer – Autumn 2005



Research has shown that although children living in poor families has been cut by 500,000 there were still 3.5 million children living in poor families – 2.1 million of these were households where one or both parents were in work and qualified for the full range of tax credits.
Family	Christian Herald – 24th October 2005



Only 7% of couples getting married in the UK receive pre-marriage advice.
Family	Christian Herald – 15th October 2005



The Children’s Society with the University of York, which surveyed 11,000 children, aged 14-16, found that two thirds say their parents or carers did not report them missing to the police. One in six say they were forced to sleep rough or with strangers, and one in twelve say they were hurt or harmed while away from home.
Family	Christian Herald – 15th October 2005



An estimated 100,000 children aged under 16 run away from home or care overnight each year in the UK and are mainly fleeing family conflict, abuse or neglect.
Family	Christian Herald – 15th October 2005



Official UK government marriage statistics suggest that within 25 years nearly half of all men in their mid-forties and more than a third of women will not have married. In the same period, the number of people cohabiting will have more than doubled to four million.
Family	Evangelical Times – November 2005



It is predicted that by 2010 some 40% of British homes will be single-person homes, making the single person household the predominant household unit.
Family	The Church of England Newspaper – 9th September 2005



In the past 20 years in Scotland, adoption applications have fallen from 1,000 a year to less than 400, while 6,500 children are in local authority care.
Family	The Universe – 11th September 2005



Children from single parent families are nine times more likely to live in a household where no one works than those from two parent families, according to new research conducted by the Department of Work and Pensions.
Family	The Sentinel – 29th June 2005



One third of all divorces happen in the first five years of marriage. And one half of unmarried parents split up before their child’s fifth birthday.
Family	Families Together – Summer 2005



Births outside marriage increased from 5% in 1960 to 41% in 2001. Up to 40% of fathers lose contact with their children within two years of separation. One in three (4.4 million) children are living in poverty, compared with one in ten in 1979. Over 60,000 children live in care; 96% are admitted due to family breakdown. Family breakdown costs the nation £15 billion a year.
Family	Crown and Commonwealth – Spring 2005



Since 1971 the number of divorces has nearly doubled from 80,000 to 157,000 in 2003. 13% of divorces in 2001 occurred within three years of marriage. The number of single parent families increased from 8% in 1971 to 23% in 2003.
Family	Crown and Commonwealth – Spring 2005



Pope Benedict XVI has underlined the importance of the family with a strong condemnation of modern social trends like cohabitation, 'trial marriages' and homosexual unions. In a speech to the Diocese of Rome's annual convention at the Basilica of St John Lateran this week he urged Catholics to help couples in crisis and reaffirmed Church teaching that marriage between a man and a woman is the only legitimate basis for family life.
Family	The Universe - 12th June 2005



David Blunkett insisted yesterday that boys need father figures from an early age to help stop them going off the rails.
Family	Daily Mail - 7th June 2005



According to a recent survey, 76% of UK 25 to 44 year olds haven't made a will. Marriage, birth of children, bereavement, divorce and buying a house, are all times to write or revise it.
Family	Tear Times - Spring 2005

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