Data presented by the Central Statisticians Office in Ireland shows that just over a third of births in Ireland in the second quarter of 2012 were registered as being outside of a marriage or civil partnership.
The CSO reported a total of 17,958 births between March and May, the second quarter of the year of 2012. This is a decrease of 2.3% when compared to the same period of 2011.
Accounting for 34 percent, 6,164 births of the total 17,958 births were registered as outside marriage/civil partnership in the second quarter of 2011.
Of this 34 percent, 3,449 births (19 percent) were born to unmarried parents with the same address.
Limerick City had the highest percentage of births outside marriage/civil partnership at 58 percent, while the lowest percentage occurred in Galway County, at 23%.
In quarter one of 2012, 2 births were registered in civil partnerships, and another 4 births in the second quarter of the year. In the twelve months of 2011, four births were registered under civil partnership.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.| Dec 23, 2012, 03:46 PM EST
Love in the Time of Liberation! Nowadays people can choose to live as they please without constraints of rituals they neither want nor need. All rituals and ceremonies should test themselves for what value they bring to society and the people involved. Is marriage of much significant value at all to either? Given the destructive force of the church why would anyone want to get married there? Given the little benefits of even a civil ceremony why would a couple bother? So there is time to pause and reflect what if any value there may be to the children involved in terms of legal stature and rights. What a splendid shift to love as the basis for families instead of dogma and rituals.
WoundedKnee | Dec 23, 2012, 03:11 PM EST
Poor journalism, O'Shea. You totally omitted one of the most salient facts to emerge. Namely: One child in four born in Ireland is born to a foreign mother (it was the same last year). Given the continued influx of foreigners of child-bearing age, and the exodus of young Irish men and women, this is a harbinger of the ethnic replacement predicted for Ireland within the next two or three decades. That's worth commenting on, especially on an Irish American web site--it's really weird that you didn't notice it.
cillowen | Dec 23, 2012, 01:11 PM EST
poor little bashtards.