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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Interesting how the marital age starts to rise as Thatcher starts to take apart council housing. Correlation != causation, but...
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If you're going to provide data, you should probably have a go at reading what it says, rather than what you seem to want it to say.
Age of first birth and age of marriage very clearly, according to that graph, abruptly started to climb about a decade before Thatcher came to power. The right to buy legislation then came into effect a year after her election win, in October 1980. Without having looked up the data, I postulate that any resultant shortage in council stock would have then taken a few years to reach problematic levels.
Availability of housing would be an obvious contributory factor, but it clearly isn't the driving force according to that graph. I would suggest that the boomer generation emerging from the 1960s into full-blown adulthood, with all the usual boomer assumptions about getting things their own way, would be at the root of it.