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The Office for National Statistics has reported that the divorce rate in England and Wales dipped to its lowest level in 26 years in 2007.
According to the body, the rate fell to 11.9 in every 1,000 married couples ending their relationships in divorce, compared with 12.2 per cent a year earlier.
The report noted that the provisional number of divorces recorded in the UK fell by 2.6 per cent to 144,220 between 2006 and 2007.
Overall, this figure was 20 per cent lower than when the highest number of divorces (180,018) was recorded in 1993 and the smallest number since 1977.
Penny Mansfield, director of One Plus One, told the BBC: "Annual divorce statistics no longer offer us a clear picture of the state of British relationships - those who don't marry can't divorce but they and their children are just as likely, if not more likely, to experience the impact of relationship breakdown."
According to the statistics office, in 68 per cent of cases in 2007 the wife was granted the divorce, while behaviour was found to be the most common fact proven in divorces granted to an individual.
