Key Quotes for 2014

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Just over 1,400 same-sex marriages took place in the first three months of the new law, official figures have revealed. Of these, 56% were female couples and 44% were male.
FamilyBBC News - 21st August 2014
 
According to a study for the think-tank the Institute of Public Policy Research, some young people spoke of feeling “pressured” into sex by teachers through rushed and awkward sex education lessons promoting the message that it is “normal” to have sex before the age of consent as long as contraception is used.
Young PeopleThe Telegraph - 20th August 2014
 
According to a study for the think-tank the Institute of Public Policy Research, overall almost half said there was “nothing wrong” with looking at pornography. Eight in 10 thought that most young men look at pornography and four out of 10 also said the same of young women.

Most said pornography had become “common” in their class during their mid-teens but one in 10 said this had happened as early as age 11.
Young PeopleThe Telegraph - 20th August 2014
 
According to a study for the think-tank the Institute of Public Policy Research, 46 per cent of those polled said that sending naked photos or videos – so-called “sexting” – is part of everyday life for teenagers, with boys and girls and less than a quarter disagreed with the statement.
Young PeopleThe Telegraph - 20th August 2014
 
According to a study for the think-tank the Institute of Public Policy Research, two thirds of British teenagers now believe that people today are “too casual” about sex and relationships.
Young PeopleThe Telegraph - 20th August 2014
 
According to a study for the think-tank the Institute of Public Policy Research, eight out of 10 18-year-olds now believe that pornography is too easy to access, including by accident, and six in 10 admit that its pervasiveness made the process of growing up more difficult for them.
Young PeopleThe Telegraph - 20th August 2014
 
Macmillan has raised £3m from viral fundraising craze the ice bucket challenge, while the Motor Neurone Disease Association has raised more than £2m, the two charities said today.
MoneyCivil Society News - 27th August 2014
 
In the just released results of the Evangelical Alliance survey Are we good neighbours? it revealed that evangelical Christians were largely good neighbours – by helping people in need, buying ethically-produced goods, sponsoring children in less developed countries and regularly praying for those in need at home and abroad.

Closer to home, in their neighbourhoods, more than four in 10 people trusted their next-door neighbour enough to leave a spare key with them or ask them to look after their property while away.
Religion/SpiritualityEvangelical Alliance - 21st August 2014
 
In the just released results of the Evangelical Alliance survey Are we good neighbours? on the question of the United Kingdom quitting the EU, 34 per cent wanted to see the back of Brussels while 46 per cent wanted it to stay; and 20 per cent were undecided. A whopping 91 per cent of them said they would normally vote in local elections – nearly triple the average national turn-out.
Religion/SpiritualityEvangelical Alliance - 21st August 2014
 
In the just released results of the Evangelical Alliance survey Are we good neighbours? 74 per cent of respondents said they would be unhappy or very unhappy if Scotland were to become independent while 73 per cent felt the same way about Wales with a slightly lower 64 per cent sentiment for Northern Ireland.
Religion/SpiritualityEvangelical Alliance - 21st August 2014
 
Half of hospices surveyed in England have had their NHS statutory funding either cut or frozen this year
MoneyCare Not Killing - August 2014
 
The NHS drugs watchdog in England has rejected a treatment that can extend the lives of some women with an advanced form of breast cancer because it is too expensive
HealthCare Not Killing - August 2014
 
Two thirds of people over 50 are scared of developing dementia, while just one in 10 were frightened about getting cancer
HealthCare Not Killing - August 2014
 
Age UK estimates that one in three older people in England and Wales - 900,000 people - who struggle with tasks as basic as washing and dressing get no care
The ElderlyCare Not Killing - August 2014
 
Drink and drug addicts should be treated in abstinence-based treatment centres paid for with a new tax on alcohol, a think tank has urged.

The Centre for Social Justice said that by 2024, a ring-fenced "treatment tax" would put up the cost of alcohol bought in shops by 2p per unit.

The CSJ, which seeks to tackle poverty and its causes, wants the government to fund treatment centres for 58,000 addicts per year by 2024.

Its report says 300,000 people in England are addicted to opiates and/or crack, 1.6 million are dependent on alcohol and one in seven children under the age of one lives with a substance-abusing parent.
Drugs/Alcohol/AddictionsBBC News - 17th August 2014
 
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