DIFFERENT EVOLUTIONS OF THE SHARE OF LIVE BIRTHS OUTSIDE MARRIAGE, IN THE EU MEMBER STATES
DIFFERENT EVOLUTIONS OF THE SHARE OF LIVE BIRTHS OUTSIDE MARRIAGE, IN THE EU MEMBER STATES

Summary/Abstract: Over the last decades, in most EU countries, there has been a steady increase in the number and share oflive birth outside marriage, a demographic phenomenon with negative social effects, at least on thosechildren.In this paper, we realised an analysis of the evolution of live birth outside marriage, in EU member statesduring 2005-2015. The study emphasize that during the analysed period, only in the case of 4 countriesthere were reductions in the share of the live birth outside the marriage, all the others having increases, insome cases even significant.From the comparative analysis of the statistical data we concluded that a determinant factor of extraconjugal fertility is the accentuated increase registered in the last decades of consensual unions, to theclassical marriages detriment.At the same time, the increase of the age at first marriage, a phenomenon encountered in all EU MemberStates, is another determining factor in the increase in the share of live birth outside marriage. Anotherconclusion of the study is that there is no direct correlation between the level of economic development ofcountries and the share of live birth outside marriage.

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