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How family life has changed since the days of the Titanic

Jonathan Winston Jonathan Winston
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The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has produced figures on trends in marriages and divorces in the last 100 years which show marriages down and divorces sharply up.

The figures, which have been released to commemorate 100 years since the sinking of the Titanic, show there are more than 200 times the number of divorces now compared to 1911, despite there being fewer marriages. Also, perhaps unsurprisingly, there is a lower birth rate and many more children born out of wedlock.

The 1911 statistics were taken from the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England and Wales and had the population at just over 36 million, which had almost doubled by 2010 and is expected to grow further in future years. Despite the huge increase in the population there were 241,100 marriages in England and Wales in 2010 compared to 274,943 in 1911 whereas there were just 580 divorces in that year which had risen to 119,589 in 2010.

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