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July 2010
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Marriage does not make relationships between parents more stable
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Marriage per se does not contribute much to making relationships more stable when children are young, according to new research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and funded by the Nuffield Foundation. This casts doubt on the government's aim of promoting marriage in order to decrease the rate of parental separation.

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