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LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN BRITAIN

Young people in Britain may have several girlfriends or boyfriends from their teens onwards. They go to the cinema, go dancing, play sports or

eat out together and do not necessarily intend to get married. However, each year about 350,000 British couples become husband and wife. Marriage is legal from the age of sixteen but most people wait until their mid to late twenties. Of those who get married, about seventy per cent prefer a traditional church wedding to a registry office wedding. However, by the age of forty, one woman in twenty and one man in eleven will still be single.
One in four children is born outside of marriage but these are not all in single-parent families; sixty per cent of unmarried parents have stable rela­tionships. Thirty-seven per cent of marriages end in divorce and cost the country more than £ 1.4 billion a year. Although over thirty per cent of women depend financially on their husbands, women ask for seventy per cent of all divorces. Three out often divorced women married as teenagers.
Marriage does seem to be more popular now than could be imagined thirty years ago. Is it since research has shown that married people generally live longer than the single?
A. Think about difference between American and British marriage. 1. Fill in the blanks as in the example.
A. Three of my best (good) friends — Catherine, Beatrice and Anne — are triplets, although if you met them, you would not even think they were related. Beatrice, who is ... (old) looks nothing ... her sisters. She is ... (tall)... both Anne and Catherine and slightly ... (thin). Her hair is ... black ... coal whereas her sisters have much ... (light) hair. They also have very different personalities. Catherine is probably ... (loud)... the three and ... (funny). Anne and Beatrice are ... (quiet) and ... (sensitive) ... their sister, but they are all equally friendly. I think they are ... (nice) triplets ... the world.