-- The Office for National Statistics said children in Great Britain are three times more likely to live in one-parent households than they were in 1972.They're not getting older, they're getting sadder.
-- Second marriages made up two-fifths of all marriages in 2005.
-- In the same year, the average age at first marriage in England and Wales was 32 for men and 29 for women - up from 25 and 23 respectively in 1971.
Britannia Waives the Rules
Turning Pippie into Popeye, isn't the only thing that's changed in the UK... over the last two or three decades.