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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
I've got to hand it to you UK'rs, proving me right yet again. Anyway, your liberal policies towards marriage and your creation of unions instead has finally collapsed your institution of marriage. You now have a marriage rate of a slightly over 20 per 1000 people! Wow! That is an impressive number! Not for how high it is, but for how low it is. We have to go back to 1850 (Queen Victoria's time) or earlier to even touch it since you need a much smaller population so that you can have old people and young people to offset it!
Basically, nice knowing you, since your marriage rate directly translates into birth rates - you are dying. Oh, excuse me, the people keeping up your marriage rates are the Muslims, who will also have your children, and eventually own your country in the not too distant future.
Smart liberal laws and PC attitude you've got there. It's getting you far in this world! 
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Yup marriage rates are low, and justly so - I'm not keen on the whole enterprise; apart from the cost
there's also the fact that I want to keep all my stuff if I separate from my other half. The only people who are in a win win situation when it comes to marriage and divorce are solicitors.
Perhaps coming from a family background where my parents divorced, I have a certain scepticism for the whole institution of marriage.
But all of this doesn't mean the proletariat are not squeezing kids out left, right and centre, THEY ARE! I only have to walk into town or through any nearby housing estate to see young people with loads of kids.
I think it's a little blasé of you to engineer that into omg11!!1 'nice knowing you' etc
seeing as there's more to it than that. In this respect I'll echo KP's words about divorce rates and add the whole litigation culture that began with the US 'PC - make the lawyers money' which is making itself more widespread here now too; where people aren't content until they have compensation for the most inane trivia. Thanks for exporting that to us... no really, we were in such dire need of PC, it's so much better and more efficient than good old fashioned common sense and decency we had before.
I could just as falsely say "See ya yankees! by the time all those swarthy moustachioed Mexican illegals are finished crossing your borders, you'll all be eating tacos' and chilli and calling everyone 'gringo'."
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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
This law has never been used in recent memory except when looking for alimony.
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BINGO! score 1 for the lawyers.