The risk of breakups is, as Martins concludes, due to childlessness instead.
But traditionalists emerging from the meeting vowed to continue their fight and hinted that the risk of a breakup of the church remained.
As the president of the European council, Donald Tusk, warned that positions were hardening – and the risk of a breakup was real – Syed Kamall said Cameron needed to work hard to ensure his reforms are passed in the parliament.
Explaining reproductive risks to young couples with one affected child might increase the risk of family breakup, given that no other children would be involved; but parents in this situation might not take a theoretical future reproductive risk seriously.
Bond markets, which have for 12 months tried to price the risk of a eurozone breakup, now have to calculate the possibility of the breakup of the Spanish state - for secession in Barcelona would surely prompt centrifugal tendencies in the Basque region, and exacerbate the fiscal crisis in the poorest regions.
While many European leaders and businesspeople have argued that the risk of a catastrophic breakup of the euro zone has declined, leaders of other regions said the crisis still had the potential to sow global misery.
Mr. Diebel said that the failure of Germany and the European Central Bank to take significant steps to address the region's debt crisis would mean "the risk of a euro breakup increases".
Now European leaders either need to allow the European Central Bank to buy trillions of dollars in troubled government debt, or risk the breakup of the eurozone and an economic catastrophe.
But if your heart is telling you to risk the breakup of the kingdom, think what your Queen might tell you about where your true loyalties and commitments should lie.
