Youth

Time- Experts say part of the reason for that is scams are often tailored to the younger generation—more than half of which spends an average of at least four hours on social media daily. “Older generations are going to [fall for] standard phishing schemes through email, or where they get you on the phone, and tell you that your children and grandchildren are in trouble,” says Jonathan H. Swanburg, president of TSA Wealth Management. “The younger generation may just see an ad on Facebook, or Instagram, or TikTok for some investment that's going to pay you 10% a month with no risk.”Financial planners point to these get-rich-quick schemes as opportunities to prey on the generation that has inherited inflation, high housing costs, and increased debt. At the same time, younger adults are generally more trusting of what they see online. A Pew Research Center report from 2022 found that adults under age 30 are almost as likely to trust the information they see on social media as information they learn from national media outlet

NY Times - While divorce rates in the United States have plummeted from their early-1980s highs, fewer people are choosing to marry in the first place, and fewer people are finding partners or living with them. As of 2021, about 25 percent of 40-year-old Americans were not married — the highest percentage ever recorded.