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 age supported by one or both parents. Whereas in England and Wales only 18.6 of the families have more than three children, the percentage in the Irish Free State is 33.5. The average age of males at the time of marriage is 34.9 in the Irish Free State pared with 26.6 across the Irish ChanWales. Women in the Free State marry at an average age of 29.1 compared with 26.. across the Irish Channel. One in three only of the men under thirty are married in the Irish Free State and three out of very four of- the safe 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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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19625, 20 October 1933, Page 2
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178IRISH FAMILIES. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19625, 20 October 1933, Page 2
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