The marriage that is european (EMP)

The marriage that is european has first been described by Hajnal in 1965. A high age at marriage for both men and women, the second being ‘neolocality’ and the third a very large number of singles that never married at all although Hajnal did not give any details on how he thought this European Marriage Pattern had come into existence, he mentioned three features as being central to this pattern: the first being. Hajnal’s article was cited again and again. Their tips have now been criticized, abused (fora on the web marketing Hajnal’s EMP along with numbers on urbanization and industrialization right into a debate on competition, trying to proof ‘germanic’ supremacy), also refined, by the addition of even more features. [...]