‘Marriage’ erased from official conception statistics
The word ‘marriage’ has vanished from Government statistics on conceptions.
The official figures instead lump marriages and civil partnerships together under the label “legal partnership”.
The new figures show there were around 900,000 conceptions in England and Wales in 2009. Background notes reveal that only 218 of those were attributed to someone in a civil partnership.
Paul Washer | 2/17/2011
