{"id":35743,"date":"2025-09-01T03:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35743\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T03:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:24:40","slug":"more-kerry-babies-born-outside-of-marriage-compared-to-10-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35743\/","title":{"rendered":"More Kerry babies born outside of marriage compared to 10 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"File image.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/26433462-0111-4ed0-98c3-d9abfe1c6d52.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">File image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">More Kerry babies were born outside of marriage in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">New Central Statistics Office data shows that 335 births were registered in Kerry in the first three months of this year. 44 per cent (147) of these births occurred outside of marriage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The first three months of 2015 saw 444 births registered in the county, with 31 per cent (139) of these occurring outside of marriage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The CSO data shows the average age of a Kerry mother who gave birth in the first quarter of this year is 33. No equivalent figure exists for the same period in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The average age of a mother who gave birth to their first child in the first quarter of the year is the same as it was a decade ago at 31.5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The average age of a mother who gave birth to their first child outside of marriage is also similar to a decade ago (30.6 in Q1 2025 versus 30.5 in Q1 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File image. 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