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The buttoned-up Brit may be a myth. According to the annual British Social Attitudes Survey, released Wednesday, Britons’ attitudes about sex and marriage have grown increasingly liberal over the past two decades. Some of the more revealing numbers:
70%
Think premarital sex is acceptable, up from about 50 percent in the 1980s
244,710
Number of marriages that were recorded in England and Wales in 2005, the lowest since 1896
28%
Agree that “married couples make better parents than unmarried couples”
42%
Say one parent can raise a child as well as two
17%
Men who agree “a man’s job is to earn money; a woman’s job is to look after the home and family,” down from 32 percent in 1989
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Page compiled from Tribune news services
