Pavlo Melnyk/Shutterstock Daniel Hill, University of Liverpool Did you get engaged over Christmas or New Year? If so, congratulations. Perhaps you have already been to the register office to give […]

shutterstock/View Apart Simon Duncan, University of Bradford For many couples, moving in together signifies a big step in the relationship. Traditionally, this meant marriage, although nowadays most cohabit before getting […]

The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill represents the biggest shake-up of divorce laws in half a century and aims to reduce the impact that allegations of blame can have on […]

Is this a good thing or an overbearing kind of government intervention/paternalism? You decide. Families with deep rooted-problems will receive  support to get their lives back on track with up […]

s. pathdoc/Shutterstock Karen Lander, University of Manchester Although most of us can distinguish between and remember hundreds of different faces, some people are better at it than others. “Super-recognisers” can […]

Jacob Lund/Shutterstock Parashkev Nachev, UCL “Why can’t you just relax into it?” is a question many of us have asked in frustration with ourselves or others – be it on […]

Good advice or the State interfering in people’s everyday lives? Families have been urged to reach for a book this Christmas in a bid to boost early literacy skills. With […]

Elnur/Shutterstock Veronica Lamarche, University of Essex Christmas may be a time of giving, but it’s also a peak time for break-ups. Facing the prospect of spending yet another festive season […]

Women born in 1973 (the most recent cohort to complete their childbearing in 2018) had on average 1.89 children, unchanged from the previous cohort (women born in 1972). More than […]

Today the Office for National Statistics has released the latest figures on domestic abuse from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, police recorded crime and a number of different […]