> As the father of a child born outside marriage is not legally recognised, the marriage rate of parents is close to 100%.<p>I think this is referring to the "recognition" process, where if a kid is born out of marriage, the parents have to recognize it as their own to have the full legal attachments.<p>This means for instance that a father can refuse to recognize a kid, and won't have any legal obligation if no action is taken by the mother or the kid. Technically it's the same for the mother, but most of the time she has to recognize the kid for obvious reasons.<p>Article's statement should be qualified, as parents can voluntarily recognize their child (this will happen for normal non wed parents), or be forced to do so by the family (they needs to go through legal procedures though). Marriage doesn't matter that much in this case, it's just easier socialy speaking.