UK: 3% of unmarried couples stay together until their child is 16

By James Chapman
21st January 2010

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While official statisticians collect data on marriage and separation, there is no such analysis of unmarried couples. But the study used census information to show that one in three unmarried couples with children separate before their child's fifth birthday, four times the rate of married parents.

Though their backgrounds appeared to account for some of the gap, unmarried cohabiting parents remain at least twice as likely to split up, across every category of income and education. the rest