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Facts about families

An overview of family make-up, including cohabitation, marriage and civil partnerships, divorce and dissolution, stepfamilies, single-parent families, teenage parents, first-time mothers, adoption and children in care.

Large group of children

Population: current and projected

New - mum and baby

Marriages, civil partnerships, divorces, births, adoptions

New - asian family

Households

Messy play

Looked after children

Teenage boy

Children with parents in prison

Brother and sister

Child poverty

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Parenting across Scotland is a registered Scottish charity: SC047892. We acknowledge the support of the Scottish Government through a CYPFEIF and ALEC Fund Grant

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