Media Watch

Almost all intact couples with young teens are married, new MF research finds

22-May-2013

Compelling evidence that couples who don’t marry rarely offer a secure and stable home for their children. Amongst parents of 13-15 year olds who do remain intact, 93 per cent are married.

Summer 2013 Newsletter now available

08-May-2013

On the anniversary of the Marriage Foundation's launch Paul Coleridge looks back over the solid achieve- ments of the first year and says that "there is everything to play for. Please continue to stand with us."

Second marriages are less likely to end in divorce than first

29-Apr-2013

The Marriage Foundation think-tank has produced a report revealing that second marriages are more stable than first marriages, challenging the widely held belief that couples who remarry are doomed to repeat the mistakes from their first marriage.

Yes, marriage is the 'gold standard’
By Judith Woods, The Telegraph, May 29, 2012

"If, as Sir Paul suggests, society is being unravelled, its warp and weft disintegrating with the ever looser bonds between couples, parents and children, can anyone really argue against the championing of loving, secure, stable marriage as the best environment in which to raise the next generation?"