Most births will be 'out of wedlock within 10 years'

[wendy]

The proportion of babies born to married parents in Britain could dip below half within ten years, according to expert analysis






6:00AM BST 27 Apr 2015



More children will be born out of wedlock than within marriage in ten years’ time, according to an expert forecast.

The prediction by the Marriage Foundation comes as the number of children born to married couples has continued to fall in almost all of the past 30 years, reaching an all-time low of 53 per cent in 2012.

The figure has dropped from 88 per cent of births in 1980.

• Most children will be born out of wedlock by 2016
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/ ... years.html

[JaneJ]

Both mine were out of wedlock and different fathers x90m

[Rosalind]

As long as the children have both parents living with them and are happy and loved.

[maureenho]

I agree Rosalind, makes no difference whether the parents are married or not.

I have a few ancesters that had children out of wedlock in the 1800's

[annie]

That figure shocked me, I believe strongly in marriage.