what a lot of sterEUtypes

Tall,fat single parent boozy depressed.
If you are Mediterranean you might think
those are strong attributes of north
And northerner may well think their southern cousins cousins
are stumpy.drive badly and chain-smoke.

According to Eurostat,
the EU'S statics office such stereotypes contain some grains of truth.

Marriage certainly divides Europe,
Northerners get hitched less and have many more children out of wedlock.
Freethinking Iceland has almost shed the habit altogether

65% of the country's babies are born to unmarried mothers
So are about of country's babies are born in Scandinavia.
The farther south you go. the less illegitimacy

But you are much more likely to die in traffic accident.in Europe's south.
Portugal and Greece clock up the highest rate of road death while the Nordics
, despite their long dark winters and icy roads, are safest drivers.