Axios - A dramatic shift from a generation ago: Americans are increasingly forgoing or delaying marriage. Over the last 50 years, the marriage rate in the U.S. has dropped by nearly 60%, Axios' Erica Pandey writes. Taxes and other legal structures still give an advantage to married couples, but the formal benefits of marriage are diminishing, said Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins. And the societal pressure to marry has eroded dramatically.... It used to be a basic institution that everyone had to buy into in early adulthood," Cherlin said. "You got married, then you moved in together, and then you got a job....Marriage is now becoming the last step into adulthood." And it's an optional step. People are more likely to want to finish their education, find a job and pay off debt before getting hitched.
1 comment:
Perhaps another reason is the high rates of divorce among their parents and they way family court treated each parent unequally and they - especially males- dont want to becomea secound calass citizen.
Post a Comment