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Their research highlights that children are more likely to have a healthy lasting marriage as adults if they grow up within an intact marriage. And, children who live with their own two married parents enjoy better physical health on average than do children in other family forms.</li><li>There are legal benefits too. Married parents have equal responsibility for their children in ways that unmarried parents don’t. An unmarried mother has parental responsibility, but there is no automatic parental responsibility for an unmarried father.</li></ul><p>The Church of England welcomes couples for marriage who already have children. 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Our closest friends came, and to have our marriage blessed before the little congregation, and then to see our children accepting baptism with surprising solemnity, was indescribably moving." </em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111102054429/http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/116239" onclick="target='_blank';">Read the full commentary.</a></p></p> </div> <div id="divTestimonials"> <div id="divTestimonialsContent"> <h3>Real Weddings</h3> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111102054429/http://www.yourchurchwedding.org/real-weddings/our-wedding-was-a-gift-from-our-guests.aspx" title="Read more: Our wedding was a gift from our guests"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111102054429im_/http://www.yourchurchwedding.org/thumbnailer.aspx?Img=http://weddings.strawberryadmin.co.uk/uploads/images/20090428121604.jpg&imagewidth=151&overlay=n" alt="Read more: Our wedding was a gift from our guests"/><br/> Caroline and Charlie<br/><strong>Our wedding was a gift from our 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