• The proportion of children living in lone-parent families in Great Britain more than tripled between 1972 and spring 2004, to 24 per cent. (Table 2.4)
• In 2003/04, one in six adults aged 16 and over lived alone in Great Britain. (Table 2.6)
• In spring 2004, 58 per cent of young men (aged 20 to 24), and 39 per cent of young women of the same age lived at home with their parents in England. (Table 2.7)
• There were 306,000 marriages in the United Kingdom in 2003. This was the second successive annual rise but was still 36 per cent below the 1972 peak. (Figure 2.8) Latest information on marriages
• The number of divorces in the United Kingdom rose for the third successive year in 2003, to 167,000, but was still 7 per cent below the 1993 peak. (Figure 2.8) Latest information on divorces
• In 2003 there were 4,800 adoptions in England and Wales, less than one quarter of the number in 1971. (Figure 2.23) Latest information on adoptions
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