Marriage is the healthiest option despite the fact that marriage is losing ground to cohabitation a new research from Britain confirms. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show this is especially true for men. Women who are married -- or have been -- and have children are the healthiest, unless they are lone parents, in which case they are more likely to suffer a long-term illness. Divorce and separation are also associated with poor health.
Six years of government data on family life show that children are also more likely to develop illnesses if they live in non-traditional family groups. Teenagers whose parents are married, and those who live with just their mother, are more likely to stay in education past the age of 17, than those of cohabiting parents.
The number of cohabiting couples in Britain has increased by 65 per cent in a decade, with a more gradual rise in the number of single-parent families. In 2006, couples in nearly 70 per cent of families were married, but that proportion could drop to less than half by 2014. Childlessness is increasing along with cohabitation: there are over 1.3 million couples living together without children compared with around 854,000 a decade before.
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