Times change and so too do the patterns in how couples of all ages form relationships. Data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) provides a constant reminder of great successive shifts in households across England and Wales. For instance, the number of marriages in England and Wales has fallen by 45 per cent […]
Read moreSince it was first published (anonymously) just over 200 years ago, Jane Austen’s ‘Sense And Sensibility’ has struck a chord with successive generations of readers. However, despite the book remaining enormously popular, its view of the world – and marriage, in particular – has seemed ever more dated. As the novel illustrated, marriage was the […]
Read moreThere are few elements of our personal and professional lives which have not benefited from the great surge in technological advances over the last few decades. Smartphones which sit neatly in our hands enable us to forge relationships with and remain connected to individuals on the other side of the world, if we’re so inclined. […]
Read moreAlmost three years on from the start of lockdown in the UK, there are few who would doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has been a life-changing event. It has, of course, wrought a terrible toll in the home and the workplace. At the time of writing, the virus has cost the lives of more than […]
Read moreOver the course of the last 18 months or so, almost every household across the UK has experienced the rising cost of living in some form of fashion. The most notable factor has arguably been the increase in energy costs, which a report published by the House of Commons’ Library only last month underlined was […]
Read more“Knowledge”, as one popular saying goes, “is power”. The implication is that an understanding of how something functions equips us with confidence. It’s a maxim brought to mind by a significant project which is currently underway at three family courts in England and Wales. As the name given to the initiative – the Transparency Implementation […]
Read moreFor many individuals in many cultures and across many centuries, marriage has been the principal – and, in some cases, the only – way of forging relationships. If we turn the clock back exactly a decade, in fact, to discussions about which led to the introduction of same-sex marriage, the then Culture Secretary, Maria Miller, […]
Read moreJust over 50 years ago, two US psychiatrists undertook a research project to determine the degree to which a variety of relatively common life events might stress those who experienced them. The work of Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe considered the medical records of more than 5,000 individuals. It was eventually published in 1967 and […]
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