47% of Spanish families don’t have kids | Key4Communications | News

Almost half of the Spanish families are made up by one person or couples without children. This is what we can deduce from a study published by the magazine ‘Panorama Social’, edited by Funcas and developed by the investor of ‘Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona’ (UAB) Pau Miret. The study shows that homes made up by couples with one or more kids represent currently almost four out of ten Spanish homes, meanwhile a fourth part are one-person homes, and another fourth part, couples without kids. The remaining percentage belongs to one-parent family or homes with people without any familiar relationship.

According to Miret’s study, the prevalence of traditional homes has lost ten percentage points since 2000 to 2015 and currently represents 37% of the total of homes in Spain, meanwhile another kind of domestic structures, as the one-person homes or couples without kids have gained space. Regarding to one-parent families, Miret highlights that this is a structure which is increasing in the country and accumulates as of now 1,8 million homes. As a conclusion, the study’s author stands out that these changes are due to factors such as the population aging, the weakening of the classical family formation or the young emancipation.