![]() ![]() Fashions may change, but human nature doesn’t. But the psychology behind marriage stacks the odds in our favour – and in our children’s favour. Across any group you care to mention, parents who marry are significantly more likely to stay happily together than those who don’t. I’m just wrapping up a PhD on the psychology of marriage. ![]() The result of the trend away from marriage is that half of our teenagers don’t live with both parents. Punitive welfare policies make it financially impossible for the poorest to marry. Dismissive attitudes to marriage among the political classes, who still marry in their droves and are protected by money, have already dissuaded many from taking this valuable step. Most young adults still want to marry because they know intuitively that it’s the ultimate signal of reliable love and security. Marriage is the system that almost all societies have applied throughout history to ensure men bond with the mothers of their future children. SIR – Rachel Johnson ( Sunday, January 14) suggests that “marriage hasn’t moved with the times”. The new electrical distribution at grid and local network level will have significant embodied carbon, too. What is its plan for the UK-wide reinforcement of electrical distribution to homes and businesses – which is necessary given the cessation of natural gas and the additional demand of charging electric vehicles? And what of the sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) in existing and new electrical switchgear? A ton of sulphur hexafluoride has the global warming potential of 23,500 tons of carbon dioxide, and persists in the atmosphere for more than 1,000 years. SIR – Labour’s ambition for the UK to be a “clean-energy superpower” by 2030 means decarbonising the grid. And the panels will no doubt be from China – the chief source. Meanwhile, a vast solar panel installation in America has recently been wrecked by a hailstorm. This scheme, which will destroy vast areas of arable land (encouraging us to import food) and landscapes, will be called “greening” and “saving the planet”. SIR – Matt Oliver and Jonathan Leake report that Labour plans to triple solar panel “farms” to cover up to 400,000 acres of farmland by 2030 ( Business, January 14). ![]()
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