• The proportion of children living in lone-parent families in Great Britain more than tripled between 1972 and spring 2006 to 24 per cent. (Table 2.5)
• In 2005 the number of people living alone in Great Britain had more than doubled since 1971, from 3 million to 7 million. (Page 16)
• In Q2 2006, 58 per cent of men and 39 per cent of women aged 20–24 in England lived with their parents, an increase of around 8 percentage points since 1991. (Table 2.8)
• There were 15,700 civil partnerships formed in the UK between December 2005 and September 2006. Of these, 93 per cent were in England and Wales, 6 per cent were in Scotland and 1 per cent were in Northern Ireland. (Page 18) Latest information on civil partnerships
• In 2005, 24 per cent of non-married people aged under 60 were cohabiting in Great Britain, around twice the proportion recorded in 1986. (Page 19)
• The average age for mothers at first child-birth was 27.3 years in England and Wales in 2005, more than three years older than in 1971. (Table 2.17) Latest information on births
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