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•52% of co-habiting parents have split by the time their children are five, but 92% of married parents are still together.[8]

•70% of children born to married parents expect to spend their entire childhood with both natural parents, but only 36% of children born to cohabiting parents do.[9]

•Divorced or co-habiting men aged 20-60 have 70%-100% higher mortality rates than married men. For women the figures are 35%-58%.[10,11]

•Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is three times more common in cohabiting mothers than in married mothers, and seven times more common in single mothers than married mothers.[12]

•Child abuse is six times more common in stepfamilies, 33 times if mother has a live-in boyfriend, and 20 times when both biological parents cohabit.[13]

•Divorced fathers misuse more drugs and have more unsafe sex.[14]

•Divorced young people are twice as likely to drink more alcohol.[15]

•Married men earn 30-40% more than divorced men over a lifetime.[16]

•69% of single mothers live in the bottom 40% of household income, compared with only 34% of married couples with children.[17]

•Single parents are eight times more likely to be out of work and twelve times more likely to receive benefits than married parents.[18,19]

•Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders – and make up 70% of all young offenders.[20





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