Stuff the so called passport bros refuse to talk about
Costa Rica's out of wedlock birth rates is 73%
Mexico 70%
Chile 75%
Nearly half of Venezuelan children are born illegitimate—and that statistic does not count those born out of wedlock but recognized by the father. Only a third of all Venezuela's women are married, and another 20% live as concubines. Divorce, once rare in the predominantly Catholic country, has doubled in two decades.
ever there is a crisis the Philippines must urgently confront, utterly paramount is the deteriorating state of our families and children.
From the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data, we see that in 2010, 765,074 illegitimate babies were born. One year later, in 2011 — practically the first full year of the Noynoy Aquino presidency — that number grew by 1.8%, making it nearly half of the babies born that year being illegitimate (44.6% or 778,680). By the end of Noynoy’s presidency, that number had risen to 49.2% or 851,088 babies born to unwed mothers.
Afterwards, the trend seemingly solidified: in 2018, more than half (54.3%) of Philippine births were to unwed mothers. By 2020, that rose to 57% or 870,820 illegitimate babies. Notably, indications are that more males are born illegitimate than females.
Put that within the context that teenage pregnancy in this country rose by 70% in the 10-year period between 1999 to 2009. The 2010 figures show there were 206,574 teen pregnancies, with more than half involving girls below 14 years of age. The 2013 data reveals that the Philippines had the third highest number of teen pregnancies in Southeast Asia, among the highest in the ASEAN region, and the only country where such numbers were increasing. Recent numbers aren’t that comforting: teenage pregnancies remain at a high: 62,510 in 2019 to 56,428 in 2020 (according to the PSA). Set within the Southeast Asian region, with a 2018 average adolescent birth rate of 37.2 for every 1,000 women aged between 15 and 19, the Philippines was at a high 57 (31 by 2020). And note that the Commission on Population and Development found that births by girls 14 years old and below increased by 7% in 2019 compared to the previous year, which also represents a nearly 300% rise from 2000.
Yet the state of marriages — and thus the condition of children within those marriages — is equally disturbing: 20% of marriages in the Philippines will be broken, with 82% of such broken marriages involving children. A World Health Organization study finds that there are 15 million solo parents in the Philippines, with 95% (or more than 14 million) of whom are women. Finally, with the steady decline in marriages in the country comes, ironically, a continual increase in the number of annulments. Incidentally, one study (citing data from the Solicitor General) showed that the majority of annulment cases “were filed by wives (61%), of whom 91% were 30 years old or younger.”
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