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<p>The Home Office has a comprehensive range of policies and measures to strengthen
families. These include:Ability to marry and forced marriage prevention policies that
directly support healthy couple formation, facilitating civil ceremonies beyond register
offices, marriages in accordance with religious beliefs, same sex marriage, data sharing
on marriage services, and protection against coercion.</p><p>Birth and marriage registration
policies that directly support co-parenting, facilitating both parents being able
to acknowledge parental responsibility in a range of scenarios, and which allow children
to know both their parents.</p><p>Birth legislation and policy that supports the inclusion
of fathers’ details in all birth registrations, as far as practicable. Immigration
family policy that helps avoid family breakdown by allowing non-EEA partners, children,
parents and adult dependents to join or remain in the UK with a British citizen or
person settled in the UK.</p><p>Domestic abuse policy that indirectly helps reduce
family breakdown, supporting victims and their families who have suffered abuse, and
ensuring perpetrators are dealt with effectively. Until 2020, the Government is providing
£100 million of dedicated funding for tackling violence against women and girls, and
the number of domestic abuse victims across the country has been steadily falling.</p>
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