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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There has to be some (dis)incentive to have children without marriage in some contries and not others.

I Germany I guess people think you might as well marry when having children because you get extra money, less taxes whatever and maybe that's not the case in other countries.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The short answer is religion.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Marriage is a civil institution in Germany. A church marrying you has exactly as much legal power as a random citizen doing it: None. You get married at the civil registry office, by a bureaucrat (but yes they're amenable to some mild ceremony)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] UltraMagnus0001 3 points 1 year ago

religion and taxes... 2 of the same to get your money for the rich

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Another very important factor is that in Germany it's extremely difficult to become the official father of a child when you're not married to the mother. This obviously comes with a lot of problems. For example when the mother suffers complications during birth. It's just way easier to marry instead of doing all of that paperwork.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think it really matters in Finland

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

In Germany there are massive tax advantages to getting married. That is why a lot of people get married in late December of each year.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can we get another map about inceptions out of mariage? Many marry only after learning they will be parents.

[–] Koppensneller 7 points 1 year ago

We'll do deceptions out of marriage after!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Rounding error when they truncated the last two significant figures. Actual value is 0.020% higher.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Marrying apparently

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mis-reporting or not reporting births, probably. That's far too low to be realistic.

[–] ProvableGecko 13 points 1 year ago

If you get pregnant you get married.

[–] MindSkipperBro12 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be loyal to their spouse.πŸ¦ƒπŸ«‘

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How does marriage relate in any way to not cheating on a partner?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In Germany the difference between former East and West Germany is very interesting. While in the East it is roughly 55% in the west it is much lower, also with clear differences from north to south: https://www.iwd.de/artikel/unehelich-na-und-291746/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not what I would have expected given the general tendency seems to be "eastern block = less". Curious about why this is reversed in Germany (and Bulgaria apparently).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be honest I dont get your comment. Can you maybe explain more? For me the distribution looks exactly like what I would have expected considering our history.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean looking at the other numbers on the map, the eastern countries generally seem to have much lower outside-marriage birth rates yet east Germany has higher rates than the west. I'd have expected closer numbers to e.g. Poland in east Germany and closer to France/Belgium/Netherlands in the west.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah but Poland for example is very catholic traditionally. Also South and West Germany, while East Germany was more protestant. The socialist system in the GDR didn't care much for religion or actively opposed it leaving todays east Germany then largely atheist. I think this plays a huge role. You'll see the same divide looking at women working or children in kindergarten because east Germany favored a more progressive way of family and gender roles.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They didnt just 'didnt Care much', the goverment discriminated you If You believed in god. Examples i have Heard of is that If you wanted to Go to university or wanted a promotion they advised you to Stop practicing your religion.

I don't remember the exact Numbers, but about 80% were catholic after the war and about 15% were after Germany united again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

about 80% were catholic after the war

You mean religious? I don't think that region has been majority Catholic in centuries.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, that still sounds very high. I'm in the prime birthing age and hardly anyone in my peer group is married, yet many have kids.

That's anecdotal, sure, but it also implies that there's a huge population of married child bearers. Where are those?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I would like to know the conception rate out of wedlock

[–] Madster 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your experience is not representative of the whole. I know a few single moms and many unmarried couples with children.

[–] Madster 6 points 1 year ago

Indeed, it isn’t. My job has me dealing with a ton of children of the area I live in (β€œConcelho”, 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.

[–] spirinolas 4 points 1 year ago

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 uniΓ£o de facto.

[–] BobbyBoucher 4 points 1 year ago

Well yeah. Weddings are expensive (relatively) and can be delayed. Having kids can only be delayed so much. People don't have as much disposable in recent times so are choosing rather than both.

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