Sad Statistics on the family

25% of children can expect their parents to separate
About 15 000 children in England and Wales experience the divorce of their parents each year

20% of children live in lone parent households

23% of conceptions end in abortion

40% of births are outside marriage

Quoted by Schluter and Ashcroft (Jubilee Centre, 2005) taken from a review of national statistics in Roberts (2003)