Common-law marriage - a peculiarly persistent myth
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There’s no single way of ‘doing’ family in modern Britain: family life and personal relationships have changed considerably over the last few decades –from the introduction of same-sex marriage, to a marked increase in the number of mixed-race couples, or a rising tide of flat-sharing and young adults moving back in with their parents. Nowadays, cohabiting couples (both opposite and same-sex couples) are the fastest growing type of family, more than doubling from 1.5 million families in 1996 ...
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