Fear of a traumatic divorce is preventing many young couples from walking down the aisle, according to a new academic report. The study comes as new figures show the share of married adults is in the United States is at an all-time low of 50pc, with the trend especially marked among young people, according to...
Nick Clegg, the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister (pictured) has attacked Tory plans to introduce tax breaks for married couples, accusing ministers of trying to preserve a “1950s model” of family life. Tax breaks for married couples are a key demand of many Tory MPs and Prime Minister David Cameron has committed to their introduction before...
Christians are “evil” if they resist the redefinition of marriage to allow for same-sex marriage, the Head of Research and Development at Tesco.com has said. The company has already faced criticism for dumping its support for the Cancer Research ‘Race for Life’ and sponsoring London’s gay pride festival. The “evil Christians” comment was made by...
Men have an average of ten sexual partners in their lifetime while women have fewer than, according to a new UK government survey. The survey also reveals that the average age of first sexual intercourse is 17, which is the same as in Ireland for younger people, according to a 2006 ESRI report called The...
British children are growing up in a society obsessed with celebrities and need to be taught to live within their means, an education minister has warned. In an attack on contemporary values, Nick Gibb, the UK’s Minister for Schools, argued that a “got to have it now” culture was breeding unrealistic expectations of wealth in...
Marriage in America is at an all-time low, according to new figures from the Pew Research Centre. Barely half of all US adults are currently married, an analysis of US Census data shows. The Irish figure for 2006 is almost identical. The figures also show that the median age at first marriage has never been...
The main Christian Churches are united in their determination to resist any moves by the Irish Government that would dilute the ethos of faith-based schools. According to Irish Catholic, the Church of Ireland, Presbyterians and Methodists will stand firm with Catholic leaders in opposing legislation which would eliminate the distinctive character of denominational schools and...
Radical new plans for a network of “family troubleshooters” who will be paid thousands of pounds to help problem families in the wake of last summer’s riots are set to be unveiled by Prime Minister David Cameron (pictured) later today. The troubleshooters, who are expected to be a mixture of charity, council and private sector...
The key to renewing the Church is fidelity, Catholic theologian, George Weigel, told an audience of almost 300 people at a meeting hosted last night by The Iona Institute. Dr Weigel, author of the best-selling biography of John Paul II, ‘Witness to Hope’, said that even the scandal of clerical child abuse was ultimately the...
Girls in foster care are at far higher risk of becoming pregnant as teenagers compared to other adolescents, a new study from a US think-tank shows. The report, from Child Trends, find that by the age of 19, girls who had been in foster care were two and a half times more likely than were...
