These statistics are for the UK i.e. England, Wales, Scotland, and N. Ireland. Sometimes data is only available for Great Britain. Where this happens then percentages are used direct and absolute numbers are extrapolated to the UK population. Dependant children i.e. less than 16 or less than 18 and in full time education are indicated by (<16).
UK population 58.395M UK Country populations Eng: 48.708M Wales: 2.913M Scot: 5.132M N.Irl: 1.642M All live births 750K No. children < 16 12,074K Abortions 156.5K No. Households in UK 22.4M No. married men (all) 12.98M No. married men (<60) 9.47M
Source: [1] [5] [12]
No. families with children (<16) 7.64M 10 Married couple families with children (<16) 5.5M (72.5% of fam+child<16) 2,10 Cohabiting couple families with children (<16) 520K (6.9% of fam+child<16) 2,10 Lone mother families with children (<16) 1.5M (19.5% of fam+child<16) 2,10 Lone father families with children (<16) 100K (1.1% of fam+child<16) 2,10
Source: [2] [10] Note: absolute numbers are derived from 1991 GB data and so are estimated
No. married men (<60) 9.47M Married men with no children 2.8M (21.3%) Married men with children (<16) 5.5M (42.4%) Married men with non dependent children 1.2M (11.2%) Cohabiting couples with no children 770K (5.7%) Cohabiting couples with children (<16) 520K (3.5%) Cohabiting couples with non dependent children 26K (0.4%) Lone mother-headed households with children (<16) 1.5M (13.6%) Lone father-headed households with children (<16) 100K (1%) Lone parent families with non dependent children 386K (3%)
Source: [2] [10] [12] Note: absolute numbers are derived from 1991 GB data and so are estimated
Percent of lone parent households - mother headed 91.4% Percent of lone parent households - father headed 8.6%Percent of lone mothers in full/part employment 40% Percent of lone fathers in full/part employment 60%
No. lone mothers not working 900K 1.5M * 60%
Live births outside marriage/year 240K Percentage of births outside marriage 32% Suicides in lone parent families xx Drug abuse in lone parent families xx
Annual increase in lone mothers (aver) 7%/year Annual increase in lone fathers (aver) 4%/year
Lone mothers (breakdown) Single(never married) 680K +16%/year Separated 370K +10%/year Divorced 450K +1%/year Widowed 62K -3%/year
No. children(<16) in lone parent families 2.5M
Source: [1] [2] [10] [14] Note: absolute numbers are derived from 1991 GB data and so are estimated
Marriages/year 331.2K/year Divorces/year 173.6K/year Divorces with children (< 16)/year 99.55K/year Probability of divorce 41% Total children (<16) in married families 9M 12M-2.5M-0.5M Total Children (< 16) in family divorce/year 189K/year 99.55 * 1.9 Average age of children in divorce 7 years Percent mothers awarded sole residence 71% Percent fathers awarded sole residence 7% Percent joint residence awards (read mother) 21% No. of married fathers loosing custody/year 91K/year 99.5 * 91.4% % of married fathers loosing all contact after 3 years 50% No. married of fathers loosing all contact after 3 yrs 45.2K/year 91K * 50%
Source: [1] [3] [5] [11] [13]
Adultery 29.00 Husband 12.4
Wife 16.6
Behavior 44.75 Husband 5.75
Wife 39.00
Desertion 0.75 Husband 0.25
Wife 0.50
Separation 19.50 Husband 7.75
Wife 11.75
Source: [9] FNF factsheet
Divorces/year 173.6K/year Divorces with children (< 16)/year 99.55K/year Average male legal costs (no children) xx 10K Average father legal costs from divorce £29.3KTotal father legal costs from divorce £5086M/year Total legal aid cost of divorce (M+F) £1650M/year est Cost of court + court welfare service to taxpayers xx Cost of lost output from demotivated fathers 2475M/year (est)
Total divorce related costs 9211M/year
Source: [1] [5] [11]
For this calculation we make a simple assumption that if a lone-mother is working she does not claim her low wage benefitsLone mothers 1.5M Unemployed 60% = 900K Total lone-mother claimants 541K Lone parents 91.4% mother-headed
Annual Fraction Claimed by LM Unemployment benefit 1277M£ 9% * 1.5M/540K 319M£/year (540K claimants 9% lone mothers unemployed) One parent benefit 290M£ 91.4% 265M£/year 6.30 £/wk (91.4% Lone mothers) Income support 17079M£ 900/5675 2708M£/yr (5675K claimants, 900K LM claimants) Income support lone parent premium 281M£ 91.4% 257M£/year 5.20£/wk * 52 wks * 1.04M = 281M£ (1.04M LP claimants) Social fund (maternity+extra assist) 186M£ 45M£/year 100£ (on-off) assume 10% LM with baby and 200£ assist(150K LP claimants) Family credit 1449M£ 802M£/year 40% LM work assume 20% claim (542K claimants 300K LM claimants)
Housing benefit + council tax benefit 10305M£ 1872M£/yr Rent rebate (3016K claimants) Rent allowance (1634K claimants) Lone parent premium 11.50£/wk Council tax benefit (5496K claimants)
(assume 40£/wk * 52 * 900K claimants)
Passport benefits if on welfare: 1081M 900K /5675K 171M£/year Free dental care 25M Free school meals, milk, vitamins 161M Free NHS prescriptions 473M Free eyesight tests 3M Free glasses 2M School buses 417M (Claimants 5675K, LM claimants 900K)
Social costs of divorce: Unquantifiable Cost of therapy, school disruption, suicides, child homicide, child homelessness, increased drug taking, increased crime, unemployment, clinical depression, poor school achievement
Total incremental cost of single mothers v. married mothers 6439M£/yr
Compare with: DHSS supplied cost of lone mothers £9.15B/yr Note includes child benefit etc. so is absolute cost, not incremental See 15)
Total cost of divorce and lone mothers 9211+ 6439 £15.65B/yr Note: does not include cost of fathers who go unemployed and work black does not include cost of CSA or money recovered CSA stats xxCompare with: Total current cost of secondary education £8.3B/year 12 Total expenditure on defence £23B/year 12
Average male gross weekly earnings (incl) 369.0£/wk Average male hours worked 41.9 Average female gross weekly earnings (incl) 264.2£/wk Average female hours worked 37.6
Total revenue 87.2B£ Customs and excise 72.4B£ No. total taxpayers 25.3M No. single taxpayers 10.3M No. married men taxpayers 9.0M No. married women taxpayers 5.9M Total Revenue paid by all men 77.4B£ 369*52*0.33*14.15 Total number of men paying revenue 14.15M Total Revenue paid by all women 39.1B£ Total number of women paying revenue 11.05M Total Revenue paid by married men xx Total number of married men paying revenue xx Total Revenue paid by married women xx Total number of married women paying revenue xx
Lone parent head: Other families:
degree 2% 13%
higher ed 6% 14%
GCE 'A' 7% 13%
GCE 'O' 23% 15%
no educ quals 45% 18%
Source: General Household Survey 1991
Percentage of children in fatherless families US 22% UK 20.7% (2.5M / 12.074M)
Reports from the US show the effect that absence of a father has on nearly 22% of American children in a fatherless home is:
63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (Source: US DHHS Bureau of the census)
90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes
85% of all children that exibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source:
Centre for Disease Control)
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behaviour, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978)
71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes (Source: National Principles
Association Report on the State of High Schools.)
70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: US Dept of Justice Special Report, Sept 1988)
85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992)
These statistics translate to mean that children from a fatherless home are:
Occurring to a married man during marriage Probability % Occurrences to currently
married men
Be divorced 53% 7355K
Be divorced by wife using fabricated grounds 24% 3338K
Lose custody of his children 24% 3417K
Lose custody and never see children again 8% 1069K
Lose his home 39% 5515K
Lose a significant proportion of life savings 49% 6923K
Occurring to a man during divorce Probability % Occurrences to
married men/year
Have no effective defence to a wife's petition 61% 110K
Not receive legal aid 64% 115K
Have false allegations made against him 58% 105K
Be the victim of malpractice's in his legal case 87% 156K
Occurring to a married man after divorce Probability Occurrences to divorced men per year
Suffer obstruction to contact with his children 61% 110K
Suffer stress 83% 149K
Will not remarry 77% 138K
Have attitudes to women in general 63% 114K
Have attitudes to the law 90% 163K
Assets and legal costs Average/man Total money/year
Transferred to women at marriage 9913£ 1748M£
Transferred to women at divorce 18804£ 3384M£
Paid to lawyers (men only) 29306£ 5275M£
Maintenance after divorce £ per case Total over % of Total per year
per year 10 years cases for 10 years
Maintenance for children 3216 32160 47.6 2752M
Maintenance for ex-wives 5292 52920 13.4 1276M
Only 53.5% of men in divorces involving children make child maintenance. Therefore the total amount of money transferred from a man to a women over 10 years is
9913+18804+53.5%*32160= £29306 per case over 10 years
Source: [5]
Money recovered by CSA from non-resident parent 350M Money recovered by old court system 350M Operating cost of child support agency to taxpayer 213M Operating cost of old court system 60M Maintenance assessment forms returned 260.5K Total cases cleared 568K Interim assessment 64K Full maintenance assessment 187K Average maintenance 45.53/wk Interim maintenance 96.67/wk Compliance rate 33% Debt uncollectable 900M£ Normal employment rate 87% CSA father employment rate 55% No. fathers unemployed because of CSA 0-32% No CSA related suicides 39 8 Percent of MPs mailbag taken up by CSA 10-20% 7 No. MPs wanting abolition of CSA 200 Time to deal with claims 211 days 8 Average accuracy rate (chief CS officer Haselwood) 34% accurate
Source: [7] [8] [16]
Men Women
Ratio
Primary teachers 37K 173K
Secondary teachers 116K 113K
University teachers 26K 5K
Total Health spending No. doctors on list 26567 No. patient per doctor 1900/doctor Paid to doctors 2960M£ No. prescriptions per year 422M/year Average cost per prescription 8.28£ male to female visits to the doctor ratio 1:2 Finished consultant episodes ordin admiss+day cases 3281 males 4682 females Male to female ratio of emergencies 28231(M) .v. 19978(F) Addenbrooks Hosp In-vitro fertilisation costs v. no fathers loosing contact 3200£/case xx Number DHSS leaflets for male specific conditions 1 Number DHSS leaflets for female specific conditions 2 Breast cancer screening per year 1.0M Breast cancer research spending 3.8M£(Gov) 500K£(Tenovus) Cervical cancer screening per year 3.9M Cervical cancer research spending xx Prostate cancer screening per year No screening program Prostate cancer research spending 1M£(Gov) 200K£(Tenovus) Include child leukaemia xx
men woman Lung, trachea, bronchus cancer deaths per year 20402 11084 Bladder cancer deaths per year 3250 1552 Ovary cancer deaths per year - 3879 Breast cancer deaths per year 300 13113(eng+wal) Prostate cancer deaths per year 8848 - Cervical cancer deaths per year - 1329 Testicular cancer deaths per year 83 - HIV deaths per year 478 63 Drinking (units of alcohol per week) 15.4 5.1 Smoking (cigarettes per week) 114 97 Suicide deaths per year 2790 757
2) Population review: Families and Households in Great Britain John Haskey Population statistics ONS No 85 Autumn 1996 GB numbers are normalised to UK figures
3) FNF literature
4) The relationship revolution Duncan Dormor
5) The impact of Divorce Law and Practice on Fathers and Children John Campion Annex 3 Statistics ISBN 1 900080 04 4 The Cheltenham Group 1996
6) Farewell to the family Patricia Morgan ISBN 0-255 36356-7 IEA 1995
7) CSA 'scrap the act' lobby of MPs. 15-May-96 Alex Carlisle MP (Lib Dem): "that problems linked with the agency now account for 20 percent of my postbag" and also Tony Benn MP (Lab): "I have more constituency cases involving the CSA than any other" and also private communication later: with an officer worker for Anne Campbell MP (Lab) questioning a 10-20% CSA postbag "that is probably about right"
8) NACSA News
9) FNF factsheet Divorce petitions granted 1989
10) Estimated number of one-parent families and their prevalence in Great Britain in 1991 John Haskey Population Trends 78 OPCS GB numbers are normalised to UK numbers
11) Divorce and Children John Haskey Population Trends No. 84 Summer 1996 Eng+Wales figures normalised to UK population
12) Annual abstract of Statistics 1996 HMSO 1991 data extrapolated to 1994 data
13) The proportion of married couples who divorce John Haskey Population Trends No. 83 Spring 1996
14) Lone parents and married parents with dependant children in Great Britain John Haskey Population Trends No. 72 Summer 1993
15) Social security statistics 1995 HMSO ISBN 0-11-762350-4
16) Private Communication with NACSA