Children with separated, single or step-parents are 50 per cent more likely to fail at school and report more depressive symptoms and higher levels of smoking, drinking and other drug use during adolescence and adulthood.
With divorce on the increase, a disproportionate prison population (England & Wales: 15%, Scotland: 2.5%) [2] and a drugs problem among many young British Muslims [3], is it not time we took a serious look at what is really happening in the communities we live in?
In 2011, there were about 2.8 million Muslims in the UK. Under 5 per cent of the population of England and Wales was Muslim; in Scotland the figure was 1.4 per cent.
Nearly half the UK’s Muslims were under 25 years old in 2011.
On education and employment issues, the 2011 population census showed an improving picture of attainment and progress for British Muslims compared to 2001. There was evidence of a ‘Muslim penalty’, however, for both women and men, as a result of the impact of Islamophobia.
In three separate scenarios, the US Pew Research Centre projected the Muslim population in the UK in 2050 to be 9.7 per cent (zero migration scenario), 16.7 per cent (medium migration scenario) and 17.2 per cent (high migration scenario).
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