⚠️What do women and men want from a relationship? Findings from our new survey of 2,000 young adults: Top 'green flags': honesty, kindness, friendship, interest & good manners Top 'red flags': put downs, flirtyness & bad manners marriagefoundation.org.uk/research/green…

Mind your Ps and Qs! Daily Mail and Mailonline cover our new survey of 2,000 young adults aged 18-35. Politeness and good manners are a key 'green flag' for a relationship. Put downs are the number one 'red flag'. Harry Benson Sam Merriman dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

New figures from Office for National Statistics (ONS) show fewer than half of adults are married Every time we see a figure like this, we must remind government to tackle the perverse welfare penalty that stops couples marrying If you want to stay together, get married! marriagefoundation.org.uk/fewer-than-hal…

Friday Five: Green Flags and Red Flags: What Women and Men Really Want in a Relationship via Marriage Foundation marriagefoundation.org.uk/research/green…

💒Our new survey finds one in five young married adults have signed a prenup. Half of those not married would consider one For better for worse, prenups are here to stay Story covered in today's Daily Mail The Times and The Sunday Times and Times Radio marriagefoundation.org.uk/research/one-i…

One in five adults now sign a prenuptial agreement before getting married Our new survey in today's Daily Mail dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

'Young couples give prenups a ringing endorsement' Our new survey shows one in five young married adults have signed prenups Higher than you expect? Good thing or bad thing? Story in today's The Times and The Sunday Times and interview on Times Radio

'We should be supporting something that gives people their best chance of reliable love. Marriage does that and prenups don't get in the way' Our Harry Benson talking to Sky News alongside Jane Keir this morning

'We should be supporting something that gives people their best chance of reliable love. Marriage does that, and prenups don't get in the way' Talking with Sky News about our new Marriage Foundation study this morning

There were 231,949 marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales in 2023, an 8.6% decrease from 2022. This may reflect the end of a short-term rise in weddings which were postponed due to COVID restrictions. Read more ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

The 9% decrease in 2023 opposite-sex weddings, reported today by Office for National Statistics (ONS), conceals the long tail of lockdown At least 100,000 couples whose weddings were cancelled during lockdown may still not have rearranged their weddings marriagefoundation.org.uk/the-100000-mis…

The draconian restrictions of lockdown led to 130,000 fewer weddings in 2020 The latest data for 2023 from Office for National Statistics (ONS) now shows a surplus of 18,000 weddings in the three years since then What's happened to the 100,000 missing weddings? marriagefoundation.org.uk/the-100000-mis…

"Harry Benson, research director of Marriage Foundation, said the year-on-year drop in weddings ‘conceals the long tail of lockdown’ At least 100,000 couples whose weddings were cancelled during lockdown may still not have rearranged their weddings" Daily Mail dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

I'll be talking to Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ on LBC at 2105 tonight about falling marriage rates New Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows a 9% drop in 2023 At Marriage Foundation, we notice there are still 100,000 missing marriages from lockdown. What's happened to them and why does it matter?

So what has happened to the 100,000 cancelled lockdown weddings? Marriage Foundation marriagefoundation.org.uk/the-100000-mis…

A 9% fall in marriages in 2023 over 100,000 marriages lost as a result of our draconian lockdown policies. The number of weddings in 2020 fell by 61%, the biggest collapse in Europe Another #lockdown toll Marriage Foundation has details

‘Nearly half of kids are not living with both parents. I think that’s horrendous’ Premier Christianity premierchristianity.com/interviews/har…

With family breakdown at a record high, marriage researcher Harry Benson argues that the real crisis isn’t divorce, but the quiet erosion of commitment before it begins premierchristianity.com/interviews/har… Marriage Foundation

The Marriage Foundation's Harry Benson explains why husbands should love their wives as Jesus loved us premier.plus/the-profile/po… Marriage Foundation