Eurostat presents report on Living arrangements in the EU27. The message is clear and does away with ideological prejudices: Three out of four children in the EU27 lived with married parents in 2008. One child in seven lived in a single parent household.
In all Member States, the most common living arrangement for children aged less than 18 years was to live in a household with married parents.
In 2008, 74% of children in the EU27 lived with two married parents, while 14% lived in a single-parent household and 12% in a household with cohabitating parents.
Just over half of children lived in 2008 with two married parents in Estonia and Sweden (both 54%), while the proportion was around 90% in Greece (92%) and Cyprus (89%). Children living in a household with cohabitating parents were most common in Sweden (27%), Estonia (23%), France (21%) and Slovenia (20%), while the highest shares of children living with one parent were found in Latvia and Ireland (both 23%), Estonia and the United Kingdom (both 21%).
These figures on living arrangements in the EU Member States come from a report published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. The report covers a broad range of information including children, persons over 65, multigenerational households and young adults.
