In what kind of families do children and adolescents grow up in Germany

Of those adolescents who nowadays come of age about 73% in West Germany and about 64% in East Germany have spent all their lives with their two natural parents. Increasingly (at present 12% in the West and 40% in the East) children are born out of wedlock but a third of them are legitimized by the subsequent marriage of their parents. Another third [of them] obtain stepfathers. If family formation is defined as the birth of the first child the percentages of first births which are illegitimate are 20% for West Germany and 60% for East Germany....In the age range 15 to 17 the percentages for adolescents living with a single parent are 14% in the old Federal states and 18% in the new states. Including the children of married but separated parents the majority by far--8% in West Germany and 11.5% in East Germany--live with their divorced mothers. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE) (EXCERPT)