In the meeting, 227,700 children live in a family and 42 % of them reside with only one of their parents in a single -parent family, reveals an INSEE study.
This share is four times higher than in France (11 %). Freals in single -parent families are also more numerous. otherwise, Living conditions are less favorable for children of single -parent families. So, 33 % of them reside in over -occupied accommodation, compared to 23 % of all minor children living in Reunion. Their parent, less graduate, is less often in use. Just over five out of ten children therefore live in a "traditional" family, with their two parents and their possible brothers and sisters. There are fewer in a recomposed family (almost one in ten). Family structures are relatively stable over the years in Reunion. This is not the case at the national level, where the children grow up, The less they live with both parents.
