Posted on 03/02/2025 2:48:14 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Almost a third of Russian families have been abandoned by their fathers, the Kremlin revealed yesterday, contradicting President Putin’s claims to have cultivated a society based on traditional Christian values.
Anna Kuznetsova, Russia’s leading official for children’s rights, said that of 17 million families with at least one dependent child, single mothers were the sole breadwinner in five million.
Ms Kuznetsova, an anti-abortion mother of six who was appointed by Mr Putin last year, also said that another 600,000 families had no mother at home.
Russia has the second highest divorce rate in the world, with 4.8 for every 1,000 people each year, according to government figures. The Maldives have the highest, at 10.97. Half of all marriages in Russia end in divorce, with infidelity, poverty and alcohol cited as the leading causes in a survey by the VTsIOM state pollster. It costs £9 to divorce if both parties agree.
Absent fathers are obliged by law to make child maintenance payments but avoidance is widespread. Russia’s strict residency laws mean that women who relocate are unable to place their children in state nurseries.
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I am alarmed at the number of young people who think that the rich get that way by exploiting the poor and that capitalism is evil and the US is a horrible place.
What percentage of children live in fatherless homes?
National Data on the Father Absence Rate!
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 19.5 million children, more than 1 in 4, live without a father in the home.
First, among men there is a very high alcoholism rate, which leads to deaths and suicides as well as spouse abuse that leads to divorce. Second, there are lots of single mom head of families due to Russian wars all over the world, including Ukraine. Third, there are a lot of military age men who have fled Russia to avoid being drafted. Some may have hopes of bringing wife and family to them if they earn enough and can figure out how to get family out of Russia.
I have a cousin who lives in Germany and was born in the Soviet Union who has cousins she helped flee Russia. She drove to Poland to pick them up after then crossed from Belarus. I know people I used as travel guides in St. Petersburg, who fled to Greece to set up their travel business.
Ukrainian men are no better. It's a cultural issue.
My wife's Ukrainian father had multiple children by multiple wives to the point where he gave two of his daughters the same first name.
Marc Bennetts
Marc Bennetts is a British journalist living in Moscow. He is the author of I’m Going to Ruin Their Lives:Inside Putin’s War on Russia’s Opposition.
In our families 2 children on my side was the max. On my wife’s side, 3 was the max with 2 being an average.
In the current families aka childbearing most couples stop at 2.
Most of the current child bearers who stopped at 2 children with good and expensive college degrees.
This is very true!
Alcoholism is very high with Russian men.
I picture myself with 4 beautiful Russian/Ukrainian women-doesn’t matter which. All are sisters/orphans. Do an Elon Musk and produce 4 kids each. That’s 16 of them with ONE very happy grandmother.
Too late.
“ china has a shortage of women due to the one child policy. So import a lot of chinese men.”
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Yes, I understand that to be true. But, weirdly, I keep seeing stories about millions of Chinese “leftover women” who reach their thirties and can’t find a man to marry. Strange thing.
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