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Home NATIONALNumber of unmarried parents with underage children on rise
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Sat, 22 Nov, 2014 12:04:49 AM
FTimes Report, Nov. 22
 
Marital status of parents in one-parent and cohabiting families with underage children in 1995 and 2013. Source: Population and Cause of Death Statistics, Statistics Finland.
The marital status of parents is, nowadays, more often unmarried than in the mid-1990s, according to Statistics Finland’s data.
 
The number of families with children with one parent or cohabiting couples has been growing over the past 20 years. But in recent years the number has remained nearly unchanged.
 
Of families with underage children, 19 per cent are families of a cohabiting couple, 18 per cent of a mother and children, and three per cent families of a father and children, the data showed.
 
The share of unmarried mothers and fathers in one-parent families with underage children has grown between 1995 and 2013. In father and children families, 28 per cent of the fathers were unmarried in 2013.
 
The share is clearly higher than in 1995, when just 13 per cent were unmarried.
 
This indicates that cohabiting partnerships are now dissolved more often, but also that the child or children remain registered more with their father than before.
 
As many as 41 per cent of the mothers of mother and children families are unmarried, mostly as a result of divorce, the statistics say.
 
In 1995, nearly one-third of the mothers of underage children were unmarried in one-parent families and nearly one half were divorced.
 
The share of divorced parents in parents of one-parent families has declined slightly from 1995 to 2013.
 
In divorces, the children usually stay with their mother. Today, 44 per cent of the mothers of mother and children families and 52 per cent of the fathers of father and children families are divorced, the data said.   
 
 
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