Turning Pippie into Popeye, i
sn't the only thing that's changed in the UK... over the last
two or three decades.
-- 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.
-- 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.
They're not getting older, they're getting sadder.
