The changing Greek family

The Greek family is changing dramatically. More single-person households, fewer weddings, more divorces, more single-parent families, more births out of wedlock, apartment-sharing, cohabitation pacts, childless couples: The traditional nuclear family is constantly losing ground.

The majority of households in Greece today are single-person: a man or a woman who chose to or ended up living on their own. According to Eurostat, the European Union's statistics office, the share of single-person households rose by four percentage points between 2010 and 2017, reaching 31 percent. The next largest group is married couples without children, who account for 25.2 percent of all households (up from 24.1 percent in 2007). They are followed by married couples with children, who account for 21.9 percent of the total (down from 23.2 percent in 2007). In fourth place, accounting for 15.7...

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