Majority of babies were born out of wedlock in 2021 for the first time on record and British women in their 40s now twice as likely to give birth than teens, official figures show

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11095693/More-babies-born-wedlock-2021-time-record.html

• Around 625,000 live births were logged in England and Wales in 2021, up 2% on the figure reported in 2020
• But 321,000 of these were outside of marriage or a civil partnership, while 304,000 were within one
• It means 48.7% of newborns were to legal couple, below 50% for the first time since records began in 1845