Marriage rates down for English women

Date: 2006-12-19

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New brides have been a minority among adult women in England and Wales since 2004, the British Office for National Statistics reported.

Only 11 million women older than age 16 married during the last two years, The Daily Mail reported, while 2.15 million divorced. Thirty years ago, 60 percent of women married by the age of 25, and 85 percent were hitched by age 30. These days only 10 percent of women marry by age 25 and 33 percent by 30.

Conservatives blamed the Labor government for reducing or eliminating financial incentives for marriage.

If we are to look after the health of families, we need to devise policies that will reverse the drop in marriage among young women, said Jill Kirby of the Center for Policy Studies. We have seen fresh evidence this week of how that decline is bad news for the rising generation of children.

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