America's Marriage Rate Plunges - Mike McManus
America's Marriage Rate Plunges
By Mike McManus
December 28, 2011
Only 51 percent of Americans are currently married - a record low - down from 72 percent in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census data.
There are three major factors behind these trends.
First, the number of never-married Americans has nearly doubled from 15 to 28 percent from 1960-2010. Pew said that many couples are cohabiting instead of marrying because "they fear divorce." Why? Many are adult children of divorce who do not want to live through such pain again.
Second, the number of divorced and un-remarried people has grown from 5 to 14 percent of the population.
Third, in the last 50 years the age at which people marry has jumped six years to 26 for women, and for men, to 29 years. Today only a fifth of adults aged 18-29 are married vs. three times as many in 1960, 59 percent.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Mike McManus
December 28, 2011
Only 51 percent of Americans are currently married - a record low - down from 72 percent in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census data.There are three major factors behind these trends.
First, the number of never-married Americans has nearly doubled from 15 to 28 percent from 1960-2010. Pew said that many couples are cohabiting instead of marrying because "they fear divorce." Why? Many are adult children of divorce who do not want to live through such pain again.
Second, the number of divorced and un-remarried people has grown from 5 to 14 percent of the population.
Third, in the last 50 years the age at which people marry has jumped six years to 26 for women, and for men, to 29 years. Today only a fifth of adults aged 18-29 are married vs. three times as many in 1960, 59 percent.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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