{"id":704,"date":"2018-10-11T09:47:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T09:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2018-10-11T09:47:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T09:47:29","slug":"divorce-rates-fall-to-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/divorce-rates-fall-to-new-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce Rates Fall to New Low"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to figures released by the ONS, heterosexual divorce rates in the UK have fallen to their lowest point since 1973.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The last time divorce rates were as low as they are now, Britain was about to join the EEC which was later renamed the EU and Elvis Presley was still performing. Fast forward to 2018 and divorce rates are once again down significantly with 8.4 divorces per 1,000 heterosexual couples. This marked a 5.6% decrease on the previous year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In total there were 101,669 divorces of heterosexual couples in 2017, which was 4.9% less than the year before. So does this mean people are suddenly more likely to stick together or is this just a statistical anomaly? According to the ONS the reason there are less divorces is simply down to there being less marriages.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

People are increasingly more likely to cohabit that get married. Compare this to 1973 when cohabiting would still have been largely frowned upon and these latest figures can be put into perspective.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is too early to tell if there is a more positive trend towards heterosexual couples staying together rather than opting to divorce if marriages become strained. In fact, among older people, divorce rates have actually gone up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to figures released by the ONS, heterosexual divorce rates in the UK have fallen to their lowest point since 1973.\u00a0\u00a0 The last time divorce rates were as low as they are now, Britain was about to join the EEC which was later renamed the EU and Elvis Presley was still performing. Fast forward to… Read More »Divorce Rates Fall to New Low<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[229,149,83,247,170,126,254,224,86,10,219,175,74,255],"tags":[256,257],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court","category-digital-divorce","category-divorce","category-divorce-cases","category-divorce-law","category-divorce-rate","category-divorce-rates-fall","category-divorce-settlement-breaches","category-divorce-settlements","category-family-law","category-family-mediation","category-lund-bennett","category-marriage","category-new-low-in-divorce","tag-divorce-rates-fall","tag-new-low-in-divorce"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t