We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - Most Kinds Of British Marriages Plummeting

The vast majority of Brits are checking out of the future:
Marriage rates in England and Wales have fallen to the lowest level on record, government figures published today have revealed. The proportion of adults who chose to marry in 2006 fell to the lowest level since marriage rates were first calculated in 1862, according to provisional figures published by the Office for National Statistics. In 2006, 22.8 men per 1,000 unmarried men aged 16 and over got married, down from 24.5 in 2005.
The absence of Anglo marriages is, however, being supplanted by a different style of courtship:
A quiet epidemic of missing teenagers has Britain questioning its multicultural beliefs and asking why authorities have not acted to protect these children. Only a few weeks after the Archbishop of Canterbury suggested that the British allow for shari’a courts for Muslims, a new study indicates as many as 4,000 or more Muslim teens and young adults simply vanish every year — forced into arranged marriages by family members through abduction, rape, and threat of death... As Der Spiegel notes, the most shocking aspect of this is how little outcry it has created in Britain. Teens simply disappear from school rolls, and no one thinks to question why.
Eh. There's really not much point in asking questions if people already know the answer. It's not like the children's schoolteachers don't know what's going on. They're just disinclined to interfere in these charming cultural practices. Multiculturalism, after all, is the essence of compassionate virtue. And of sophistication.
References:
* Marriage rates fall to lowest-ever level [Guardian]
* An epidemic of forced marriages in Britain [Hot Air]
Previously:
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - One In Ten "Asians" Support Honor Killings In Britain, "Political Correctness" Prevents Police From Stopping Them [Audio]
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - British Artists Terrified Of Muslim Lunatics, British Cops Apologizing For Muslim Lunatics
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - Blair "Rolled Over" On Saudi Weapons Corruption Because They Threatened "Another 7/7" (Plus: Saudis Buying Their Way Into The State Department Through Georgetown)








