Divorce rates in England and Wales have increased for the first time this decade according to the Office for National Statistics.
There were 106,959 divorces of opposite-sex couples in 2016, an increase of 5.8 per cent compared with 2015, with men and women getting divorced at a rate of 8.9 per 1,000 married people – up 4.7 per cent.
The last time there was an increase in divorce rate was between 2009 and 2010.