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 […]

The breakdown of a marriage might not be everyone’s dream of happily ever after, but new research shows going through a divorce helps people improve nearly all areas of their […]

From University of Exeter: Newly-discovered documents show Henry VIII’s legendary marital troubles may have led to other copy-cat splits around the country. The extraordinary story of a teenager who flip-flopped […]

Civil partnerships increased in 2018; numbers have settled after a sharp decrease when same-sex marriage was introduced. Opposite-sex civil partnerships will undoubtedly create another change in future stats. following a […]

Vlachaslau Govorkov/Shutterstock.com Emma Maynard, University of Portsmouth The UK has seen a sharp increase in teenage drug use in the last few years: the NHS reports that 37% of 15-year-olds […]

The proportion of the population in England and Wales who are married has continued to decline in 2018 to 50.5%, down from 51.0% in 2017. While the proportion of the […]

Children found it particularly difficult when parents couldn’t agree on where they would live. Shutterstock. Susan Kay-Flowers, Liverpool John Moores University When parents separate or get divorced, it inevitably disrupts […]

The biology of same-sex attraction seems to involve a host of genes. Dewald Kirsten/Shutterstock Brendan Zietsch, The University of Queensland It has long been clear that a person’s sexual preference […]