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The number of divorces rose for the first time in seven years last year.
The economic recession was blamed for the increase, as families struggled to (26) the tensions caused by money pressures and unemployment.
The rate of (27) also rose, with 11.1 people divorced for every 1,000 in the population of married people in 2010. This was up from 10.5 for every 1,000 married people in 2009. Divorce was most common in file 40 to 44 age group, and the average marriage that (28) divorce lasted 11.4 years.
The figures from the Office for National Statistics indicate an end to the trend that ran through the second half of the last decade, which showed rising (29) of relationships among the declining number of couples who did decide to marry. ONS experts (30) the latest rise in divorces on the economy.
They acknowledged that some reasoning suggests (31) should in fact have the opposite effect, as couples are less able to afford lawyers, or to pay for two homes after they part, or to sell their marital home.
But they (32) that divorce rates went up fast in 1.993 following the recession that seriously damaged property values between 1990 and 1992.
Some couples are thought to (33) to make sure they are certain before they begin an expensive legal process, and in the hope that an economic recovery may raise the value of their homes and (34) .
The ONS figures also showed that by last year a third of couples who wed in i995 had divorced. This (35) of divorces within 1.5 years was fat" up on 1985 levels-by then 22 per cent of couples married in 1970 had divorced.