Marriage Foundation

Strengthening the institution at the heart of personal relationships and encouraging the raising of children in love, stability and security

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

The psychology of commitment and marriage in 2 minutes!
@harrybenson6
https://t.co/hBfMRC6HzF

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

Is the government so short on ideas that instead of encouraging marriage - the family form that stacks the odds in everybody's favour - they want to pretend informal cohabiting is its equivalent?
We already have record levels of family breakdown ...
https://t.co/uwsitZ9J7f

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

Last month’s release of 2025 data on Families and Households from @ONS passed with barely any media coverage
But beneath these apparently unremarkable figures lies a profound social change to which we have become dangerously complacent
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[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

New family data conceal the epidemic of family breakdown
https://t.co/uxbLHU8SuX

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

New family data conceal the epidemic of family breakdown
https://t.co/uxbLHU8SuX

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

Delighted to announce I have passed my PhD on the psychology of marriage at the University of Bristol
Lots to say when I launch my findings in June. Suffice to say that research to date has seriously underestimated the impact of marriage
Dr Harry? 😀
Dr Marriage? 😂
@MarriageF

[Premier Christianity @Christianitymag]

The Marriage Foundation's Harry Benson explains why husbands should love their wives as Jesus loved us
https://t.co/t5ifoBdPfy @MarriageF

[Premier Christianity @Christianitymag]

With family breakdown at a record high, marriage researcher Harry Benson argues that the real crisis isn’t divorce, but the quiet erosion of commitment before it begins
https://t.co/S3AsBdsj5J @MarriageF

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

‘Nearly half of kids are not living with both parents. I think that’s horrendous’
@Christianitymag
https://t.co/TpKhTdNYKo

[Kathy Gyngell @KathyConWom]

A 9% fall in marriages in 2023
over 100,000 marriages lost as a result of our draconian lockdown policies. The number of weddings in 2020 fell by 61%, the biggest collapse in Europe
Another #lockdown toll
@MarriageF has details

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

So what has happened to the 100,000 cancelled lockdown weddings?
@MarriageF
https://t.co/NKUDEmM92u

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

I'll be talking to @IainDale on @LBC at 2105 tonight about falling marriage rates
New @ONS data shows a 9% drop in 2023
At @MarriageF, we notice there are still 100,000 missing marriages from lockdown. What's happened to them and why does it matter?

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

"@harrybenson6, research director of @MarriageF, said the year-on-year drop in weddings ‘conceals the long tail of lockdown’
At least 100,000 couples whose weddings were cancelled during lockdown may still not have rearranged their weddings"
@DailyMail
https://t.co/p2Z96Z8VAx

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

The 9% decrease in 2023 opposite-sex weddings, reported today by @ONS, conceals the long tail of lockdown

At least 100,000 couples whose weddings were cancelled during lockdown may still not have rearranged their weddings
https://t.co/WyQVDkwTJo

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

The draconian restrictions of lockdown led to 130,000 fewer weddings in 2020
The latest data for 2023 from @ONS now shows a surplus of 18,000 weddings in the three years since then
What's happened to the 100,000 missing weddings? https://t.co/NKUDEmM92u

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

The 9% decrease in 2023 opposite-sex weddings, reported today by @ONS, conceals the long tail of lockdown

At least 100,000 couples whose weddings were cancelled during lockdown may still not have rearranged their weddings
https://t.co/WyQVDkwTJo

[Office for National Statistics (ONS) @ONS]

There were 231,949 marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales in 2023, an 8.6% decrease from 2022. This may reflect the end of a short-term rise in weddings which were postponed due to COVID restrictions.

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/ViZ38R7v7X

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

'We should be supporting something that gives people their best chance of reliable love. Marriage does that, and prenups don't get in the way'

Talking with @SkyNews about our new @MarriageF study this morning

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

'We should be supporting something that gives people their best chance of reliable love. Marriage does that and prenups don't get in the way'
Our @harrybenson6 talking to @SkyNews alongside @jane_keirkn this morning

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

'Young couples give prenups a ringing endorsement'
Our new survey shows one in five young married adults have signed prenups
Higher than you expect?
Good thing or bad thing?
Story in today's @thetimes and interview on @TimesRadio

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

One in five adults now sign a prenuptial agreement before getting married
Our new survey in today's @DailyMail
https://t.co/qFvHMJKUN9