Amanda Docherty: Modern love

When two of my closest friends recently told me they were having a baby I was over the moon for them. I was chatting to my mum about it and she asked me if they were married yet or whether they were planning to get married. They weren't but I couldn't understand why it mattered. That same week there was a landmark court ruling in the case of a mother of four who was denied bereavement benefits because she had not been married. After losing her partner to cancer, Siobhan McLaughlin was told that...