Family and relationships
Marriage
Two fifths of young women this age agree that
marriage is the best form of relationship, although a third (33%)
disagree and a quarter (25%) are undecided. A majority of young
women (59%) disagree with the statement 'you are better off
getting married than living together' and a similar proportion
(57%) disagree that married couples make better parents than
unmarried ones. Three in five young women this age think that there
should be more support for families that split up.
If you have children in the future, which would
you prefer to do when they are young: stay at home or go back to
work?
The majority (53%) of young women in this age
range would like to work part-time when they have children, and a
fifth (19%) would like to stay at home. Only 12% say that they
would like to work full-time and 6% do not plan to have
children.
Would you wait till you are older before having children, or
not have children at all, in order to follow your perfect
career?
Two thirds of young women in this age range might consider
delaying or not having children in order to follow their perfect
career: 31% said that they would and 34% said that they might. A
quarter (24%) rejected this suggestion and 6% did not
know. One in twenty (5%) already have children.