“Right to Choose”: Family Breakdown Costing Britain £41 Billion a Year
4th Mar 10
The bill to UK taxpayers for family breakdown is £41 billion a year, according to new report. Among the costs are £12.38bn for tax and benefits payments to broken families and £8.03bn for civil and criminal justice spending, the study says.
The report comes from the Relationships Foundation (RF), which calculated the cost to each taxpayer at £1,350 a year.
The Cambridge-based organisation said that family breakdown “reduces health, wealth and wellbeing”, adding that in the current economic situation the cost is “unsustainable”. The RF arrived at the totals by adding up a number of different costs to the taxpayer that family breakdown causes.
The RF’s Executive Director, Michael Trend, commented that “This report deals with the unpopular truth that...
Schoolgirls Pregnant at Ten as Underage Pregnancies Keep Rising
1st Mar 10
UK girls as young as ten are becoming pregnant, shocking new figures have revealed. Over the past eight years, no fewer than 15 girls found they were expecting when they were aged just ten. A further 39 learnt they were pregnant at age 11. Since 2002 there’ve been 63,487 pregnancies among under-15s in England and Wales: a total of 23 conceptions every day among girls too young even to have...
Marriage Rate in Britain Hits Lowest Level Since 1862
25th Feb 10
The number of people getting married in Britain has fallen to its lowest level since records began in 1862. For the first time ever, fewer than two in 100 women got married in a single year. In 2008 the marriage rate for women fell from two per cent to 1.96 per cent, less than half the rate 25...