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The Israeli Family

In two days we’ll celebrate Family Day, and according to the data from the
Central Bureau of Statistics, the Israeli family is changing. Israel’s
population counts, as of two thousand fourteen, almost two million family.
An average family counts a little less than four people. The nature of the
traditional family has changed; the number of couples who live (together)
without being married has tripled in a decade, and stands on five percent.
But the complementary data shows that still, ninety five percent of couples
make their relationship official at the Rabbinate. The number of single
parent families leaped by thirty five percent in comparison with [the year
of] two thousand; more and more single women choose to have a child on
their own, an increase of five percent in comparison with a decade ago.
And in the geographical distribution - Tel Aviv has the highest
concentration of childless couples, not much behind it are Haifa and Ramat
Gan with about thirty four percent. Children, as we know, are a serious and
expensive business: a household with children spends on average one point
four times more than a childless household.

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