European Union Sees Jump In Births To Unmarried Women
Main Category: Pregnancy / ObstetricsArticle Date: 14 Sep 2010 - 4:00 PDT
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The number of births to unmarried women in the European Union has increased twofold over the past 20 years, now accounting for more than one-third of the region's births, the AP/New York Times reports. According to Eurostat, the E.U.'s statistical agency, 35.1% of 2008 births occurred out of wedlock, up from 17.4% in 1990 and 25.1% in 1998. Every E.U. nation except for Denmark experienced an increase (AP/New York Times, 9/9).
Last year, more than half of births were out of wedlock in Estonia (59%), Sweden (54.7%), Slovenia (52.8%), France (52.6%) and Bulgaria (51.1%), Time's "NewsFeed" reports. Meanwhile, births were least likely to occur out of wedlock in Greece (5.9%) and Cyprus (8.9%) (Lee Adams, "NewsFeed," Time, 9/10). Eurostat also found that E.U. marriage rates dropped to 4.9 per 1,000 individuals in 2008, down from 6.3 marriages per 1,000 in 1990 (AP/New York Times, 9/9).
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