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| China has prompted Chinese authorities to send letters to couples applying for divorce asking them to reconsider their decision. Last year the number of people ending their marriage rose by 21%. Legal divorces have risen fivefold in 25 years. Government statistics reveal 1.6 million couples divorced in 2004, up by almost 300,000 on the previous year, although the overall divorce rate is still lower than in Europe or the US. | |
| Family | Evangelical Times - April 2005 |
| A new generation of children who value loyalty, hard work and family above everything else is emerging in Britain, according to research out today. Dubbed "Generation Try" these youngsters view their parents as true superhero's and have real-life achievers such as Sir Steve Redgrave and Dame Kelly Holmes as their role models, rather than celebrities and pop stars. The research, undertaken by kids TV channel Jetix, is based on a study of more than 30,000 UK children. | |
| Family | The Sentinel - 28th January 2005 |
| Demand for fertility treatment from older men and women is rising rapidly as more couples postpone childbearing, specialists said yesterday. Up to 30% of women treated in some IVF clinics are aged over 40 and increasing numbers are seeking treatment over 50, according to the latest figures. | |
| Family | The Independent – 22nd January 2005 |
| About 60% of working mothers use some form of childcare, though this is mainly informal, with 28% having it provided by grandparents or close relatives, according to research out today.10% use centre-based care.7% childminders and 7% clubs. | |
| Family | The Sentinel – 14th January 2005 |
| Almost one in two teenagers (43%) feel that when they have something important to say they are not given enough time to say it by their parents. And a quarter of young people say that their parents only sometimes show interest in what they say, while half claim that their parents lose their temper or act impatiently in response to a disagreement..60% of young people felt their parents were often patient and encouraging towards them.These are the findings of the 'Talking Families' study recently carried out by BT. | |
| Family | Youthwork – January 2005 |
| Young Americans are living up to their moral pledges to wait for marriage, according to US government statistics. Data shows an increase in teens who describe themselves as 'religious' - and the largest number of young women getting married since the early 1960's. In 1999, 12% of women aged 21 to 24 lived with male partners, while 9% married. In 2003, according to interim data, these figures were reversed.Other statistics issued last month by the Centers for Disease Control showed the number of teenage pregnancies has fallen for the twelfth consecutive year, with those among young teenagers now at their lowest since 1946. | |
| Family | Evangelical Times – January 2005 |
| Half the births in Wales in 2003 were to unmarried mothers, according to government statistics. Records show that 30 years ago, a mere 8.6% of births in the Principality were to single mothers. | |
| Family | The Universe – 9th January 2005 |
| Violence against women and children is the focus of a World Council of Churches led campaign to be launched next Thursday.According to Home Office figures, domestic violence claims the lives of two women each week, and an estimated 446,000 people were victims of domestic violence in the UK last year. The Revd Sheila Martin, moderator of the Women's Issues committee for the Baptist Union of Great Britain, said, "Churches have a responsibility to deal with the issue. People need to look to the Church in times of desperation and we need to be prepared." | |
| Family | The Baptist Times – 18th November 2004 |
| Around 90% of women in committed cohabiting relationships have thought of playing away, while around a fifth have actually done the dirty, according to a team of medics from Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals. | |
| Family | The Independent On Sunday – 28th November 2004 |
| Rich husbands and wives who wish to protect their fortunes from the lottery of the divorce courts could soon be able to take advantage of US-style pre-nuptial agreements. A long-awaited report published by an influential group of family lawyers calls on the Government today to make "prenup" contracts binding on divorce settlements. The change in the law would put British couples on the same footing as American couples who are able to state exactly what happens to their assets after separation..More than 153,000 couples divorced in England and Wales in 2003, the third successive annual increase. One-tenth were couples who had each been divorced previously, double the proportion in 1981. | |
| Family | The Independent – 22nd November 2004 |
| The large number of parents working at weekends is having an adverse impact on family life in Britain, according to a study today. Around 1.4 million parents of children under 16 are now working regularly throughout the weekend. | |
| Family | The Sentinel – 2nd November 2004 |
| The institutional chaos of the Child Support Agency (CSA) was revealed by unions and senior staff yesterday..Unions, parents' groups and MP's have warned that the crisis may worsen, because cuts in the civil service mean that the CSA's staff must be reduced from 12,000 to 8,000 by 2008..Deadlines for Electronic Data Systems to correct the problems have been repeatedly missed and the backlog of cases is now growing by 30,000 a month. Cases are supposed to take a maximum of six weeks from the time a parent makes an application for maintenance to the final calculation of what their former partner should pay. The agency currently takes an average of from 15 to 23 weeks and even then very few parents will actually receive any money.Out of 478,000 applications to the agency since CS2 was introduced, only 61,000 parents have been paid maintenance. | |
| Family | The Independent – 20th November 2004 |
| Half of all women would lie to their husbands or partners to keep their relationship going if they became pregnant by another man, a survey by That's Life! Magazine said today. Figures showed one woman in two would not tell her man that the baby she was carrying was not his - if she wanted to stay with him. | |
| Family | The Sentinel – 9th December 2004 |
| Couples are increasingly filing for divorce aged in their fifties and sixties, a report to be published next week says. People are now less likely to stay in an unhappy marriage than before, even when they are pensioners, according to the survey by the Future Foundation for the Saga company. The divorce rate among the over 50s age group has risen by 8.7% in the past five years, it found. Over the past 10 years, the average age at which people divorce has also increased, from 39 to 42 for men and from 36 to 39 for women. One in seven people aged 50 to 64 is now a divorcee, according to the survey, compared to one in eight among the 35 to 49 age group. | |
| Family | The Independent – 4th December 2004 |
| Couples are being urged to consider their legal rights when moving in together by completing a "living together agreement". Designed to assist the four million people in England and Wales who decide to cohabit, agreements would protect both partners. The scheme, devised by the Government funded website www.advicenow.org.uk, was created after a survey indicated that six out of 10 people wrongly think that cohabiting couples have the same rights as their married counterparts. | |
| Family | The Sentinel – 6th December 2004 |
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