Marriage and Fertility in the United Kindom

Early in the 18th century, the British Isles were relatively stagnant in the two growth aspects of population and economy. At this point, the rate of return on agricultural labor in the UK is declining and the economic growth rate is very low. Due to the rise in the birthrate, in the UK there was a rapid population increase between 1700 and 1850 mainly due to the marriage system. The absolute range of this increase was from 1731 to 1871, the UK population had increased from 5 million to 21 million.

The tendency of marriage and family formation in the Millennium is also different from that of past generations. The average age of first marriage in the United States is 27 for women, 29 for males, 23 for females, and 26 for 1990. 7 Total birthrate - or average number of children per woman - 1.93 for Millennium. In the first generation, 8 is compared with 2.1 in the X th generation. Delay in marriage and child rearing can be explained by the economic environment, but these trends are before the Great Depression. Instead, it is necessary to increase the number of female labor force, the proportion of women receiving higher education, pre-marital sex, suppression of fertility, increased social acceptance of cohabiting before marriage, The change is closely related. .Ten

Changes in the living environment of children arise from long-term trends in marriage, divorce and childbirth. Since the turn of the century, the divorce rate of the United States continues to rise, and recently it is stable at a very high standard. Since at least the early 1940s, the non-married fertility rate has gradually risen. Since 1960, the age of first-time married women began to rise and the proportion of young women who could become unmarried mothers has increased. These forces have promoted the growth of the parents after the war jointly.

As the autonomous marriage rate rises, the divorce rate between the EU and the US is rising. The lowest divorce rate in the world includes cultures with high marriage rates such as American Amish culture (1%), Indian Hindu (3%), Israeli extreme Orthodox Jew (7%) . According to the 2012 survey by Statistic Brain, 53.25% of marriage is done worldwide. Arrangement The world divorce rate of marriage is 3%, which shows the success rate of negotiating marriages. This allowed scholars to ask whether the arranged marriage is more stable than an autonomous marriage and whether such stability is important. Others believe that low divorce rates may not reflect stability, but they may reflect the difficulties of divorce and social exclusion from individuals.