Attitudes to social issues such as marriage, divorce and childbearing always change over time. You could say they evolve towards a natural balance. According to a new report issued by National Office for Statistics, we have in today's world more couples cohabiting instead of getting married, lone parent families and people living on their own.
What has changed? Well, the image of marriage has developed from a contract, paper based agreement to a more spiritual communion, where people don't need a signature to trust each other and share their lives. Religious people call it 'living in sin', I say today, more than ever before, people have gone back to their roots and challenged stereotypes. Love should be the base of any couple, not a paper or a priest that tells you so.
One interesting, funny fact is : almost 2 million men aged between 20 and 34 still live with their parents, which is twice the number of women of the same age. Young adults are increasingly reluctant to leave home.
Teens have seized the internet, with a surge in number of homes that own a PC - risen from 29% to 70% in the past 10 years. Two thirds of teen now have a social networking profile, on MySpace, Bebo or Facebook. Watching TV remains the favourite pastime for UK population, but I don't think that will be the case in the next repost of this kind. Online will surely overtake TV in the next couple of years.
The proportion of single-person households has doubled since 1971, showing a fundamental change in how people explore life. We live in an increasingly individualistic society. Is that promoting and encouraging people without the social skills
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