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| The number of cohabiting couples with children increased by 65% in the 10 years up to 2006, figures show. | The number of cohabiting couples with children increased by 65% in the 10 years up to 2006, figures show. |
| The Office for National Statistics' study also found that between 1996 and 2006 the number of married people with children fell by 4%. | |
| Lone parents increased by 8% in the same period, the report said. | Lone parents increased by 8% in the same period, the report said. |
| The ONS found that family types varied according to age. In 2001, half of cohabiting parents were headed by a person under the age of 35, it said. | The ONS found that family types varied according to age. In 2001, half of cohabiting parents were headed by a person under the age of 35, it said. |
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| The Focus on Families study found cohabiting couples with children increased in the decade up to 2006 from 1.4 million to 2.3 million, while the number of married parents fell to 12.1 million. | |
| Younger people were more likely to cohabit, the ONS said, with 21% of women aged 25 to 29 between 2001 and 2003 having lived with a partner before they were 25. | |
| This compared with 1% three decades ago. | |
| Meanwhile, the research found lone parents increased to 2.6 million, with lone mothers tending to be younger than lone fathers. | |
| One in three lone mothers and one in ten lone fathers were under 35, the ONS said. |