"More than 1 in 3 children on the Continent are born to unmarried couples, a sixfold increase from the 1970s.
By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
PARIS – Germany's Bild newspaper has called it 'the Steffi Graf trend.' And though a pregnant Ms. Graf ended up marrying Andre Agassi a few days before their son, Jaden, was born, Bild has a point.
Across Europe, the number of children born to unmarried couples has risen sixfold over the past 35 years to nearly 1 in 3 of all babies, altering the face of the European family beyond recognition - and beyond recall - say demographers and social analysts."
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