Irish Families
The average ■ number of dependent children per family in the Irish Free State is 1.90, compared with 1.27 in England and Wales,. according to the ninth volume of the census of 1926, published here recently. A "dependent" child is defined as one under sixteen years of ago supported by one or both parents. Whereas in England and Wales only 18.6 of the families have more than tlireo children, the percentage in the Irish Tree State is 33.5. The average age ■of males at the time of marriage is 34.9 in the Irish Free State compared with 29.1 in England and Wales. Women in the Free State marry at an average ago 29.1 compared with 26.6 across the1 Irish Channel. One in three only of the men under thirty are married in the Irish Free' State and three out of every four of the same age-group in England and Wales. Of women under twenty-five less than one in three is married in the Irish Free State and about one in two in England and Wales.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1933, Page 9
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176Irish Families Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1933, Page 9
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