Heterosexual married couples no longer the social norm

Published: January 23, 2008, 4:58 am

Tags: depopulation, family breakdown, social engineering

Telegraph Jan 23, 2008 By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent Heterosexual married couples are no longer regarded as the “norm”, the largest survey of social attitudes in Britain shows today. Government support for gay couples and single parents, the rise in cohabitation and an official failure to support traditional marriage are said to have resulted in previously unconventional lifestyles becoming widely accepted. But people hold less tolerant views of family set-ups in which children are involved, it is claimed. The British Social Attitudes report, by the National Centre for Social Research, is significant because the questions it asks are developed and paid for in collaboration with Government departments to inform social policy. The survey, based on the views of 3,300 adults, has been running since 1983 and is an important barometer of opinion. The annual report says marriage - once the bedrock institution of British society - is seen by two thirds of people

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