UK - If you are about to have a baby, chances are you are more likely to be unmarried than married. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that 2021 was the first year on record that more children were born out of wedlock than in it. It follows a long-term trend of declining marriage rates and rising numbers of cohabiting couples seen in recent decades.
Explaining the decline, Dr Max Blumberg, a relationship psychologist and chartered member of the British Psychological Society, says that marriage no longer offers what it used to. Dr Blumberg, of Hampshire, says: 'Society used to require you to get married, even if the benefits of it were not great.
'For women especially, there was no social mobility without getting married, so even a bad one had benefits. But now it has switched around and the costs of getting married are often higher than the costs of remaining single. A marriage can mean compromising so you have less money, less of a career and less freedom. So for many there is less value in getting married than remaining single.'
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Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”
The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!
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