Tracy Corrigan, Daily Telegraph, May 20, 2008
Has the rhetoric about the declining status of marriage been overdone? A new survey by Civitas/Ipsos Mori shows that 70 per cent of Britons aged between 20 and 35 actively want to marry. The proportion is even higher among those living together. Marriage is no longer a social or economic imperative, yet most people still aspire to it.
Lucy Ballinger and Steve Doughty, Daily Mail, May 19 2008
Joblessness and poverty make marriage difficult for millions who instead fall into a spiral of short-lived relationships and single parenthood. The findings suggest that a high proportion of people who are cohabiting in live-in relationships would like to get married.