Civil partnerships plummet as dissolutions double | News | The Christian Institute: The number of civil partnerships being registered annually in the UK has fallen and dissolutions have almost doubled. Newly released figures from the Office for National Statistics show that during 2009 6,281 civil partnerships were formed in the UK, a 12 per cent reduction from 2008 when there were 7,169.
The figures demonstrate the continuing decline of the controversial unions since they were introduced in December 2005. And they suggest that the Government’s original prediction of 62,000 civil partnerships being formed in the first five years was wildly exaggerated.
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