More and more Russians prefer not to formalize relations officially

UFA, 14 February 2017. /Bashinform News Agency, Alim Faizov/. Sociologists fix a disturbing trend of civil marriages growth in the country. According to Rosstat, the number of registered marriages declined by 15 percent in 2016. It is explained by fashion for open relationship, small-numbered generation of 1990-s and economic instability in the country, "Izvestiya" reports .

In 2015, it was created 1 161 044 new families in Russia, and in 2016 - 985 834. According to the scientific director of the Independent Institute of Family and Demography Igor Beloborodov, reduction in number of marriages was due to the age structure of the population: small-numbered generation of 1990-s enters the reproductive age and age of marriage. Such a situation could lead to a noticeable decrease in the birth rate.

Experts of the newspaper say that a collapse of the birth rate during 1987-1993 is a circumstance, which will have a strong effect on the demographic situation. In their view, the increase in birth rate, which began only in 2007, will give a real impact only in 2027.

There is less and less women of childbearing age every year - thus the number of marriages will decrease. Scientists believe that if in the near future no new measures appear to support families, comparable in strength to the effect of the maternity capital, we will not be able to avoid birth rate decrease.

In Russia, a trend of trial marriages is growing. People live together and only in a few years determine their further destiny: register a marriage or separate. This trend came from the West: men and women achieve financial, economic and professional status later than 20 years ago. Many receive higher education, which is time and money consuming. People move aside issues of forming a family, plan children after 30 years of age. All this affects the decrease in number of marriages too.