UK: Most British babies now born outside marriage
By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
13/12/2007

More than half the babies born to British mothers this year will be outside marriage for the first time since records began.

The routine acceptance among the British-born population of illegitimacy has taken just 40 years to come about. In 1970, fewer than one in 10 children were born outside marriage - and in the 1950s just one in 20. the rest