Marriage rate in England and Wales falls
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For couples in England and Wales, "I do" is losing out to "we won't."
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The percentage of Americans who consider children "very important" to a successful marriage has dropped sharply since 1990, and more now cite the sharing of household chores as pivotal, according to a sweeping new survey.
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A mid Wales county has Britain's lowest birth rate, according to new research. The birth rate in Ceredigion last year was 39.3 babies per 1,000 women of child-bearing age (15 to 44) - below the British average ...
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A long-term decline in church attendance in England in recent years is &quot;pulling out of the nosedive&quot;, mainly due to ethnic minories and in particular black people.
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Home prices in Britain fell the most in three years in December, and the threat of more declines may cause the property market to seize up in 2008, said Hometrack Ltd., a London-based research group. The average cost of a home in England and Wales slipped for a third month, dropping 0.3 percent to Â£175,200 ($348,350). âThe second half of the year has seen a major reversal in confidence,â Richard Donnell, director for research at Hometrack, said in a statement. âJust as the financial markets have faced a liquidity squeeze, so the housing market is in danger of facing its own liquidity squeeze.â Prices increased 3 percent from a year earlier, the least in 18 months, Hometrack said.
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Further evidence has been published that house prices are slowing down in England and Wales.
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Britain&#39;s unemployment rate fell 0.1 percentage point to 4.7 percent in the latest quarter, according to official data released Wednesday.
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The asking prices of homes put up for sale in England and Wales have fallen sharply in December, Rightmove says.
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England's strategy to reduce teenage pregnancies is working but the pace of decline is not enough to meet its target of halving the rate of conceptions by the end of the decade, scientists said on Friday.
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Britain's suicide rate for young men has plunged to its lowest level in two decades and is nearly 30 percent below its peak in 1998, the government announced on Friday.
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The number of people looking for work in Germany, the biggest eurozone economy, fell by about 90,000 to 4.257 million -- or 10.3 percent of the workforce -- in September, the Federal Labour Agency announced.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households -- a share that has been slashed in half since 1960 and is the lowest ever recorded by the census.
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Britons are taking a more liberal attitude toward sex and marriage, but retain traditional views on how best to raise children, an annual report said Wednesday.
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The number of women in England opting for sterilisation has dropped sharply in recent years, figures show.
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There were 175 sudden infant deaths in England and Wales last year, down from 192 in 2002.
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House prices in England and Wales dropped 0.4% in December, according to the Land Registry.
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The number of people seeking asylum in Britain has reportedly fallen to levels last seen when Prime Minister Tony Blair took office in 1997.