Percent of births outside marriage in Europe.
Percent of births outside marriage in Europe.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/3197004
Source: https://landgeist.com/2023/08/12/births-outside-of-marriage-in-europe/.
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That sounds wrong for Portugal. Couples who got married, had a kid and then divorced are fairly common, but born outside of marriage makes me struggle to even think of someone.
Your experience is not representative of the whole. I know a few single moms and many unmarried couples with children.
Indeed, it isn’t. My job has me dealing with a ton of children of the area I live in (“Concelho”, as we call it), and most of them are still not born out of marriage, that’s why I am surprised. 60% seems very high.
Couples who live together like they are married, with kids and all, but haven't really put the pen to the paper, are more common than you think.
The ones who stick together eventually make it official as a formality. But their kids technically are born out of wedlock.
It even has a legal precedent as união de facto.