Recent data from Morocco’s High Commission for Planning, through the National Family Survey, highlights notable shifts in attitudes toward marriage and childbearing, with a growing number of individuals expressing reluctance to marry or have children.
The figures show that 51.7 percent of single individuals do not wish to marry, while single-child families increased from 60.8 percent in 1995 to 73 percent, and couples without children from 3.4 percent to 9.4 percent, indicating structural changes in family patterns.
Experts in social psychology suggest that these trends are largely influenced by economic factors, including rising living costs and labor market challenges, which shape personal decisions.
Despite these changes, the aspiration to form a family remains present, though often constrained by material conditions, creating a gap between desire and feasibility.