Cheap Sex and the Decline of Marriage

Jim
Society & Culture
Delayed Marriage

Marriage in the U.S. is in open retreat. As recently as 2000, married 25- to 34-year-olds outnumbered their never-married peers by a margin of 55% to 34%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. By 2015, the most recent year for which data are available, those estimates had almost reversed, with never-marrieds outnumbering marrieds by 53% to 40%. Young Americans have quickly become wary of marriage.

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Bert Perry
Fri, 09/29/17 12:46 pm

Regnerus is doing some valuable work, but (again) I wonder if he’s over-simplifying things. Certainly the acceptance of fornication and even “swiping” for partners is going to reduce the demand for marriage, but we can’t ignore family law/divorce court, or the 1000 ways government “helps” (generally by hurting) the married, either. I’ve even seen some things in fundgelical-land—counseling methods that assume that if a guy every gets angry while driving, he’s responsible for everything wrong in the relationship, things like that—that have got to contribute.

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