Yes, I googled the world on the Wikipedia before using it! I wouldn't think Mid-Western people are as tolerant as New Yorkers. It takes many many years to change a big population as it's in USA compared to us in Scandinavia. We're only 9 million today.
You'd better choose your partner carefully, before getting children together.
It's quite common to have shared custody here! I've seen many children on the airport flying to one of their parents. They even have a special section at the airport for children, the airport crew take care of the children. Shared custody often means, one week at mom's house and next week at dad's house or special weekends at dad's house and weeks at mom's house. Being a child today is tough!
I live in a Protestant country and the rest of the Nordic countries are pretty much the same, same religion, culture, history etc.
To be married or just living together it's not a big issue here. Living together and having mutual children it's not a big issue either. Half of all new-born children in Sweden have unmarried parents.
We also use the word "separated" when two unmarried people split from their mutual home.
Many people in this country have double last names. It's not a big issue if there are several surnames in a family. In a "modern" family here, there are many children, half siblings - a divorced mother moved together with a divorced father, and we have a big "new" happy family. It's not unusual for the man to take the woman's last name, when they get married. Or they combine two names two a double name. It has also become popular to apply for a totally new name, a name they made up together, when they get married.
I'm curious to find out if it's the same outside the Nordic countries. People get divorced outside the Nordic countries too! CS is full divorced/separated/widowed people.
Can you live together without being married in your country?
I've no intention or what so ever to discuss your post any further. Good luck in your life and I also wish you good luck in what ever you're seaching for.
This OP sounds familiar in a way! We had one member who lived in "South Africa", who spitted out this kind od bizarre polls. It was something like a year or two ago.
We get plenty of new laws all the time, some from EU and some domestic. I can only relate to Sweden and the Nordic countries. Comparing to how it's here and how it's in the East, I feel quite satisfied. At least we don't live in a society where a woman needs a man's permission or be his "servant".
Then Ali, you're looking for a future wife in the wrong place. This is a "western" dating site, owned by Americans, and mostly westerners who post on the forum and blogs. I don't recall I've ever seen any woman from Pakistan posting here. First of all, a woman from a western country would never move to Pakistan and secondly, a western woman would never become a servant to a a man and finally a western woman in most cases would never marry a Muslim man.
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To be married or not?
That's good to hear Bogart.I agree!