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Two Homes - Some Interesting Facts
- Each year in Australia, there are around 50,000 divorces and 70,000 separations, a figure that includes couples living in long-term de facto relationships.
- In 2004, 52,747 divorces were granted.
- The percentage of marriages involving children under 18 stood at 49.8% in 2004. The total number of children under 18 involved in divorces granted in 2004 was 49,260.
- In Australia in 2006-07 there were 808,000 one-parent families and 81,000 blended/step families.
- Of all families in 2006-07 with co-resident children aged 0 to 17 years (2.6 million), 80% were couple families and 20% were one parent families ( table 1). The proportion of families with children aged 0 to 17 years that were couple families has increased.
- There were 94,000 step families with co-resident children aged 0 to 17 years in 2006-07 (4% of all families with children aged 0 to 17 years).
- A blended family contains a stepchild but also a natural or adopted child of both parents. There were 80,000 blended families with co-resident children aged 0 to 17 years in 2006-07 (3% of all families with children aged 0 to 17 years).
- Of the 4.8 million children aged 0 to 17 years in 2006-07, just over 1 million (22%) had a natural parent living elsewhere. Of these children, 75% lived in one-parent families, 12% in step-families and 10% in blended families.
- Children were more likely to live with their mother than their father after parents separated. The vast majority of natural parents living elsewhere were fathers (82% of these children had a father living elsewhere)
- In 2006-07, there were 470,000 non-resident parents. Most non-resident parents were fathers.
Source: ABS, These statistics were compiled from the Family Characteristics and Family Transitions and History topics in the Multi-Purpose Household Survey (MPHS), which was conducted as a supplement to the ABS Monthly Population Survey (MPS), from July 2006 to June 2007.
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