75% of children live with two married parents

THREE quarters of children in Ireland live with two married parents.

One in five of the country’s 1.5m under-21s lives with a lone parent, while 6% live with cohabiting parents.

The ERSI statistical study of Irish families reveals that 2.5% of children live in families where there is at least one stepchild, and that 1.3% are stepchildren.