Marriage is best for bringing up children

Today's Telegraph covers a study from the Bristol Community Family Trust, which carries out research into parenting and relationships. The BFCT states in its research notes that official government policy to abolish "marital status" and disregard marriage in government-sponsored research is incompatible with the claim that every child matters, according to a new study by BCFT's Harry Benson. "Marital status� is in fact the single most important factor predicting whether couples with young children stay together or not. Based on up-to-date Millenium Cohort Study data on 15,000 mothers with three year old children, this is the largest scale study of family breakdown yet conducted in the UK.