CoalitionForMarriage

Schluter argues that even a modest financial signal matters: “It does put a public marker down on the fact we value marriage and that marriage is good for you”. c4m.org.uk/blog/marriage-…

The 600,000 “missing mothers” are not a mystery. They are the human consequence of a society that stopped valuing the one commitment that makes family life possible for most people. c4m.org.uk/news/what-the-…

"The guidance begins with an honest diagnosis... You might expect that to prompt a rethink. It doesn’t. Scotland’s response is more of the same, and if things are getting worse, that only shows the programme must go further." c4m.org.uk/blog/scotlands…

" ...a signal to every social worker, every fostering panel, and every placement decision-maker in the country: a married mother and father is no longer a relevant consideration when deciding where a vulnerable child should live". c4m.org.uk/news/marriage-…

Luke Taylor, researcher at the Centre for Social Justice, names the problem plainly: “We almost got to the stage where we talked about toxic masculinity so much we were at risk of making masculinity itself sound toxic.” c4m.org.uk/blog/lost-boys…

When the law treats parental involvement as a conditional privilege rather than a presumption, it replaces the permanent bonds that marriage creates with arrangements supervised and revocable by the state. c4m.org.uk/news/new-bill-…

When marriage is hollowed out – when it becomes just one option among many – the consequences are not abstract. They show up in collapsing birth rates, fractured families, and children who feel they cannot talk to their own parents. c4m.org.uk/blog/the-count…

Clearly, this is a generation so cut off from the meaning of marriage that they can’t enter it without first drafting the terms of its dissolution. c4m.org.uk/news/when-i-do…

You are supposed “to work as though I have no children and parent as though I don’t have to work”, Dr Ashley Frawley says. When parents inevitably fall short of these impossible standards, they are attacked. c4m.org.uk/blog/when-did-…

Bundled alongside measures on grooming gangs, knife crime, and online exploitation are provisions that strike directly at parental authority and the place of marriage in family life. c4m.org.uk/news/stop-gend…

When people like Dr Edwards pay a heavy price for saying what millions believe, C4M is here to ensure that voice is not silenced. c4m.org.uk/blog/fired-for…

The figures are breathtaking. Just 224,402 marriages took place in 2023, the lowest since records began in the 1850s (outside Covid), despite the population growing from 56 million to 67 million. c4m.org.uk/news/marriage-…

If “consensual conversations” become unlawful, the cultural space for man-woman marriage shrinks fast. If speech about sexual difference is treated as harm, the man-woman basis of marriage is treated as prejudice by default. c4m.org.uk/blog/bbc-misle…

At C4M, we know that marriage is not a lifestyle garnish. The counter-revolution is already under way. The task now is to rebuild the ground-level conditions for a new generation to choose real marriage with confidence. c4m.org.uk/news/today-we-…

Brennan’s central claim is that law is not the only lever. Culture and commitment matter, because most abortions do not happen in stable, married homes. c4m.org.uk/blog/dave-bren…

Decades of policy have treated fathers as optional. The result is a crisis of authority in the home. Now, the Government proposes itself as the ‘Digital Father’ – cold, bureaucratic, and hostile to our values. c4m.org.uk/news/The%20nat…

Tim’s argument begins with a simple premise about marriage: “I think marriage is meant to be a public institution endorsed by the state and protected by law”. That is why he argues the cousin marriage question cannot be shrugged off as a technicality. c4m.org.uk/blog/The%20cou…

The current direction of travel is obvious. Fewer marriages, fewer children, and then a permanent argument over importing future generations. That is not a plan. It is drift. c4m.org.uk/news/Marriage%…

Broadcasting matters. The public-interest case for marriage and family stability is strong, so the BBC should treat marriage as a serious civic institution. c4m.org.uk/blog/BBC%20are…

“... all children have a right to the affection and protection of the man and woman who created them”. The report adds that “the ideal environment in which to exercise this right is in a loving and stable home with their married biological parents”. c4m.org.uk/news/Saving%20…