We already suspected a little.
The “Ricoré” image of the 1980s, with a united parental couple and perfect children around the breakfast table, does not really exist.
This traditional family model, according to INSEE (National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies) which corresponds to the mother and the father raising their offspring, does not even cease to crack year after year in our country.
While the Family Conference opens in three weeks, the first of its kind for more than fifteen years, on October 5 and 6 in Paris, INSEE draws up, in a study published this Monday, September 13, a panorama of the family in France.
And the result is clear: the “classic” household, although still in the majority (66%) is losing ground with a decline of 3% in ten years when the proportion of single-parent families has increased over the same period, now representing one in four families. (up 3% in ten years).
Blended families remain stable
Recomposed (with a couple and at least one child born before the union), they remain stable, corresponding to one in ten families.
“Many of these families that are created after a second union lead to break-ups themselves.
In this case, we then come back to the configuration of single-parent families, ”analyzes Isabelle Robert-Bobée, head of the demographic studies division at INSEE.
Another striking observation: single parents (a single parent raising their child or children) are poorer than the others.
Children raised in this environment, who mostly live with their mother, are often below the poverty line (41%), and more often than others live in social housing (37%).
And for good reason: in a third of this type of household, the parent does not have a job.
