general stats

• How many 2019 marriages were religious?

  less than 1 in 5
• Women in paid work?

  53% - 1971

  72% - 2013
• Sue Sharpe study of women's motivations?

  women in the 70s to the 90s shifted their priorities from love and marriage to a career and independence
• What percent of children are born out of marriage?

  Around half - double the number in 1986
• Relations with grandparents statistics?

  68% of children in 2000 had a relationship with all four grandparents

  Under 25% in 1900
• How much money do grandparents do work of childcare and who found this?

  £73 a week - Legal and General survey
• What did Edgell find in the 1980s?

  Men make most important decisions, earning power dictates decision making power
• Year of same-sex marriage?

  2014
• Shutes?

  40% of adult care nurses in the UK are migrants
• Ehrenreich and Hochschild?

  Care work, domestic work and sex work in western countries like the UK and USA is increasingly done by women from poor countries
• Divorce Rate Act and its impact?

  1969

  Divorce rate doubled between 1961 and 1969

  40% of marriages end in divorce
• Fertility rate trend?

  1900 - 3.6

  2022 - 1.5