One young married couple were stunned to learn that both their names were drawn in a recent lottery, even though they could only afford one car!

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David and Diana Murphy (Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore) are a young married couple, desperate for money, who vainly try their luck at the tables of Las Vegas.

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Moreover, the chancellor's obsession with means-tested state pensions has undermined the incentive to save for retirement and the skewing of the tax-benefit system against marriage has been greatly exacerbated, despite overwhelming evidence that young people brought up within married couple families tend to be more successful and less likely to be involved in criminal activities than those who are not.

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Kathryn McCloskey and Joe O'Bara married in 1948, a promising young couple eager to start a family.

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But Royal historian Lady Antonia Fraser said that it was not for us to say a young couple should or should not get married, and the wedding was a powerful symbol of how Britain has changed.

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