The absolute numbers are down, but so are the rates. Basically people who marry now tend to marry later and stay married. (View Post)

Divorce rates have been declining for a quarter century. Mostly because many couples never marry in the first place. The fall in fertility rates is a worldwide phenomenon, and affecting nearly every … (View Post)

The penultimate tweet also worrys me. People clearly expect a slippery slope and a degree of pressure on people to kill themselves. I think that a likely outcome too. (View Post)

Sure, but such attitudes would have been the norm for indigenous Brits just a few decades ago. Certainly there are problems with fanatics and with reactionary attitudes to women and homosexuality, th… (View Post)

Indonesia has had a female President too. (View Post)