A new report has hit out at a lack of support for marriage among senior politicians.
Family Unfriendly Britain, by the Marriage Foundation, blames the decline in marriage in the UK on “cowardly senior politicians” and “anti-family” welfare policies that penalise poor couples who marry.
It criticises years of tax and welfare policies that have failed to distinguish between married and cohabiting couples by offering financial incentives to marry.
The report says that the government should be pro-active in bringing in measures that would boost marriage rates and reduce family breakdown.
It points to Hungary as a model for increasing both marriage and fertility rates.
In the UK, marriage rates fell by 13 per cent between 2010 and 2019, before plummeting by 61% during the first year of the pandemic.
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