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Alcohol abuse by parents in the UK is damaging the lives of an estimated 700,000 teenagers, new research published by the Children’s Society this week suggests. Of the parents of these teenagers, three in five (59%) also suffer from depression or anxiety, the survey of 3,000 families with children aged 10-17 has concluded. The charity has estimated that this equates to more than 1.6 million teenagers who have a parent with depression or anxiety, and 1.7 million teenagers who have a parent with problem debt.
Family	Church Times - 10th November 2017



The average UK family will spend £514 on school dinners each year (Provident Personal Credit).
Family	Premier Youth and Children’s Work - October 2017



45% of 14 to 15-years-olds are not living with both parents (Marriage Foundation).
Family	Premier Youth and Children’s Work - October 2017



One in seven couples approved to adopt children are homosexual, according to new figures. Figures from the Ministry of Justice show that applications for adoption by same-sex couples have risen by 13 per cent in the last year. Over the same period, the number of applications by heterosexual couples fell by 12 per cent.
Family	The Christian Institute - 8th December 2017



Children whose parents divorced are still suffering from the damaging effects into their 50s, new research has indicated. A report published by the International Longevity Centre UK found that the consequences of family breakdown do not ‘wear off’.
Family	The Christian Institute - 8th December 2017



CARE Families and Taxation Report has revealed that the income tax burden placed on a one-earner married couple with two children on the average wage is 70% greater in the UK than in France, twice that in the United States and fifteen times that in Germany!
Family	CARE Impact Direct - 17th November 2017



The report, Cost of a Child in 2017, estimates the cost of raising a child in the UK, based on the minimum income standard: a threshold calculated according to what members of the public deem essential items for every family. It estimates that families in which both parents work full-time on the national living wage are 13 per cent (or £59 per week) short of what they need to give their children a minimum living standard. Single parents working full-time on the same wage are 18 per cent short: double the shortfall they faced in 2012. Couples and single parents not in work face a shortfall of more than 40 per cent.
Family	Church Times – August 2017



Smacking children is to be banned in Scotland, the Scottish government has confirmed. The move would make the country the first part of the UK to outlaw the physical punishment of children.
Family	BBC News - 19th October 2017



A child born today has only a 50 per cent chance of living with both birth parents by the age of 16. And while the number of divorces has dropped in recent years, more than 100,000 couples still split every year.
Family	Christianity - August 2017



Our analysis of data from the Family Resources Survey between 1994 and 2012 shows an alarming widening of ‘the marriage gap’ between the rich and poor. Mothers with young children are four times more likely to be married if they are wealthy than if they are poor. Among wealthier mothers with children under five, 87 per cent are married compared to only 24 per cent of the poorest earners. The position among the middle income families is not dissimilar. In 1994, 84 per cent were married. By 2012 that figure had dropped to 59 per cent.
Family	Christianity - February 2017



There has been a 29 per cent decrease in divorces granted to couples in the first five years of marriage. For couples who have been married for more than ten years, the divorce rate has not changed significantly since the 1960s. After ten years of marriage the divorce rate is 1.8 per cent and this decreases year by year after that.
Family	Christianity - February 2017



A child born today only has 50 per cent chance of living with both birth parents by the age of 16. 61 per cent of newlyweds will stay married for life. Among parents whose relationships remain intact by the time their children are young teenagers, 93 per cent are married.
Family	Christianity - February 2017



Researchers found the majority of couples who are unhappy when their first child is born feel fulfilled a decade later. Seven in ten couples stay together following the birth of their first child despite being unhappy, according to the Marriage Foundation.
Family	The Telegraph - 8th February 2017



The United Kingdom has among the highest rates of family instability in the developed world, a study by an international group of academics has found. Three in five (62 per cent) British children born to unmarried parents living together experience family breakdown before they hit their teens. In contrast, only 45 per cent of American children, 15 per cent of Belgian children and six per cent of Spanish children born to cohabiting parents undergo the same seismic shift in their family dynamic by the age of 12.
Family	Marriage Foundation - 5th February 2017



Marriage is “associated with more family stability for children across the globe”, and cohabitation “typically associated with more instability”, a new study has found. The report by the Social Trends Institute also stated that there is a “growing consensus” that children are more likely to thrive in a stable family than in an unstable one.
Family	The Christian Institute - 10th February 2017

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