A bundle of data on Europe's regions from the European Statistical System was released a little earlier this month, and it's crammed with interesting nuggets of information on Europe's social and economic position.
One of those is where people are and aren't married in the European Union. Eurostat splits families into registered partnerships, consensual unions, single-parent families, and married couples.
The darker colours show places where a higher proportion of family unions are based on married couples, and some of the clear divisions are astounding:
http://uk.businessinsider.com/eurostat-map-of-married-couples-in-europe-2015-10
Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
>getting married
Fuck off back to the 1920s
>>68231638
Hmm, that's weird. Why is France so clearly anti-marriage?
>>68233835
yes, go your own way™
forego women
never have children
>>68234272
You don't have to get married to have children, if you notice the countries with low married rates have higher birth rates.
>>68234381
that's quintessential germans being born though
>>68234824
What did he mean by this?
>>68231638
>that Wallonia
>those German parts of Belgium including Arlon having a darker more German shade
>>68234900
that whites aren't getting married nor have kids and it's the neue deutsche that do
>>68234936
But Germany has a very low birth rate.