Marriage Rate Falls to Record Low in U.S.
Facebook may seem some days like a laundry list of “just married” profile updates complete with images of smiling brides and grooms, but according to the Pew Research Center, barely half of U.S. adults are married, the lowest percentage ever. W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, said that marriage had been “in retreat” in the last 40 years and that the decline had accelerated since the recession started in 2008. “Marriage is less likely to anchor the adult life course,” he told ABC News today. “It’s less likely to ground children’s experience with family life. It plays a less central role as an institution in American life.”
In 1960, 72 percent of U.S. adults age 18 and older were married compared with 51 percent today. The median age when adults decide to finally take that big step is also the highest its ever been for both men and women — 26.5 and 28.7 respectively. The most dramatic decline in marriage occurred among those 18-29. Just 20 percent of them are now married; 59 percent were married in 1960. Wilcox said that people felt more comfortable postponing marriage until their late 20s and early 30s these days. He said the 20s were viewed as the “odyssey years,” and a time to “find yourself.” For many, Wilcox added, marriage is still viewed as an economic institution, not just about love and living happily ever after. “People are looking for a soul mate but also a person with a decent job,” he said today. “The bar has been raised. Expectations are higher.” Pew, which examined U.S. Census data, said that other living arrangements — including cohabitation, single-person households and single-parents households – were becoming more prevalent. The number of new marriages fell by 5 percent between 2009 and 2010.
Wilcox said that while U.S. adults without college degrees were marrying less, they increasingly were having children in nonmarital situations. “In the minds of Americans, getting married and becoming parents are two different things,” he said. “Their top priority is being a parent, second to having a successful marriage. People have separated the two things. Years ago, they were closely linked to one another.” “The bottom line is that kids are experiencing more instability and more hardship because the adults are less likely to get and stay married,” Wilcox said. Seventy-two percent of U.S. adults had been married at least once, though this was a decrease from 85 percent in 1960.
A survey done by Pew and Time magazine in 2010 of 2,691 Americans found that nearly four in 10 Americans said that marriage was becoming obsolete. Forty-four percent of those 18-20 said it was obsolete. The recession seems to be socking Americans in the heart as well as the wallet: Marriages have hit an all-time low while pleas for food stamps have reached a record high and the gap between rich and poor has grown to its widest ever.
The annual survey covers all of last year, when unemployment skyrocketed to 10 percent, and the jobless rate is still a stubbornly high 9.6 percent. The figures also show that Americans on average have been spending 36 fewer minutes in the office per week and are stuck in traffic a bit less. But that is hardly good news, either. The reason is largely that people have lost jobs or are scraping by with part-time work. In the United States, marriages fell to a record low in 2009, with 52 percent of adults 18 and over saying they were joined in wedlock, compared to 57 percent in 2000. The never-married included 46.3 percent of young adults 25-34, with sharp increases in single people in cities in the Midwest and Southwest, including Cleveland, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Albuquerque. It was the first time the share of unmarried young adults exceeded those who were married.
Marriages have been declining for years due to rising divorce, more unmarried couples living together, and increased job prospects for women. But sociologists say younger people are also now increasingly choosing to delay marriage as they struggle to find work and resist making long-term commitments. In dollar terms, the rich are still getting richer, and the poor are falling further behind them. The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew last year by the largest margin ever, a stark divide as Democrats and Republicans spar over whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy. The top-earning 20 percent of Americans — those making more than $100,000 each year — received 49.4 percent of all income generated in the United States, compared with the 3.4 percent earned by the bottom 20 percent of earners, those who fell below the poverty line, according to the new figures. That ratio of 14.5-to-1 was an increase from 13.6 in 2008 and nearly double a low of 7.69 in 1968.
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HE’S NO JR EWING!! PLUS I DON’T THING HE HAS TEXAN ACCENT OR BLACK COWBOY HAT! THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF GIRLS IN THIS WORLD WHO WILL SETTLE FOR ANYTHING. YOU KNOW THAT. PLUS THE TERM “BIG IN TEXAS” DOESN’T APPLY!!
There is no reason for a woman to get married today UNLESS your future partner makes more money than you. I find that the more and more guys I am meeting, especially in New York, want sugar mamas. It is so disgusting. This is because the see other LOSER men who are not only getting the milk for free but now they are now able to purchase the cow for zip, zero! Not only are women giving it up easily but they are supporting these men too. So now there is a new generation of lazy ass men, getting s*cked and f*cked for free while they lay on the couch all day waiting for their woman to come home from work….Seriously, what is the point of having one of those? Great job girls! Not only are they not committing but they want to be supported as well!!! Toolbags!
What about a Lu like Winston Wu. Surely one girl would love to settle with that! LMFAO
MARRIAGE IS DONE=WITH THE EMERGENCE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS LIKE FACEBOOK! IT IS A SAD BUT TRUE REALITY! WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE INTERNET I SAW MORE MARRIAGES BREAK UP DUE TO CHEATING AND TRADING IN PARTNERS FOR BETTER AND MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE OVERSEAS DEALS THAN EVER BEFORE! NOW IT IS 100X WORSE, FAR EASIER AND MORE CONVENIENT WITH THE NEWEST AND LATEST TECHOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN THE MARKETPLACE! WEI ALL LIVE IN A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD THAN OUR PARENTS DID OR THAN WE ALL DID EVEN SIX YEARS AGO!! LIKE THEY SAY, IT IS A MAN’S WORLD AND SOME THINGS WILL NEVER CHANGE SEW GET WITH THE PROGRAM SISTER BECAUSE BOYS WILL BEE BAD BOYS! 🙂
I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT IF I WERE A YOUNG OR OLDER MAN WITH MONEY TODAY, I WOULD NEVER GET MARRIED. THAT’S A FACT! WHY YOU ASK? BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY GORGEOUS, SMART, FUN, SEXY, TALENTED AND FUNNY WOMEN OUT THERE LIKE MEE AND MEN TRAVEL AND GET BORED BEING AROUND THE SAME WOMAN DAY IN AND DAY OUT!! MEN ARE WIRED TO LOVE VARIETY UNLIKE WOMEN WHO ARE WIRED TO LOVE ONE MAN. LIFE IS SHORT AND THEN YUE DIE. THAT IS WHY!! AND BECAUSE THEY CAN!! AND BECAUSE MOST WOMEN ARE CONTROLLING BITCHES FROM HELL, INCLUDING MEE SOMETIMES BUT ON FAR LESS OCCASIONS LATELY THAN MOST=I DON’T CARE TO BE WITH ANYONE IN PARTCULAR=AFTER A WEEK TO TWO MONTHS MAX I GET SICK OF AND PASS ON MOST MEN WHO I MEET SO IT IS A PERFECT SITUATION FOR SOME PEOPLE!! ALTHOUGH I MUST SAY THAT LATELY, I AM VERY INTERESTED IN WHAT IS GOING ON DOWN IN HOUSTON AND DALLAS TEXAS=THE MEN IN DALLAS AND HOUSTON ARE REALLY HOT AND THAT ACCENT JUST DRIVES MEE WILD LATELY!! I ALWAYS DID HAVE A THENG FOR JR EWING! WE’LL SEE!! 🙂
DALLAS
Dallas – ol` JR has still got it
MEI IDEAL HUSBAND + JR A MAN AFTER MEI OWN HEART =
WHERE ARE YOU?? CALL MEE BABY!!
J.R. Ewing
Dallas – ol` JR has still got it
CHAPEL OF LOVE
NOT JUST THE GUYS, WHAT ABOOT “FRIENDS”?? I BOOTED ONE OR A FEW TO THE CURB!! MEI FORMER FRIEND WHO YUE KNOW AND LOVE=HATE WOULD INVITE MEE OVER AND COMPLAIN ABOUT HAVING 0 MONEE FROM HER “GREAT BIG PRODUCER HUSBAND” SEW THAT I WOULD PAY FOR EVERYTHING! PLUS EVERYTHING IN HER HOME IS MINE!! I GAVE IT TO HER!! PLUS WEN “FRIENDS” THINK YOU HAVE MONEE THEY EXPECT YOU TO PAY FOR A FUCKIN CRUISE TO BERMUDA FOR THEIR ENTIRE FAMILY + FUCK OFF BITCH = I AM NOT YOUR SUGAR ANYTHING! I DON’T EVEN GIVE ANYTHING TO BLOOD RELATIVES AND VICE VERSA=DUE IT YOURSELF!!!! YOU WANNA PRETEND TO BEE A WASP=THAT IS THE OLD WASP WAY WHICH GAVE IT AWAY TO MEE THAT YOU NEVER WERE ONE!!! IT’S IN THE BLOOD MEI FRIENDS, IT IS IN THE BLOOD!! ONE THING THAT DOES HOLD TRUE IS THAT YOU REALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE WAY A MAN OR WOMAN THINKS BEFORE YOU MARRY HIM/HER OR ENTER INTO A SERIOUS FRIENDSHIP OF ANY KIND WITH HIM/HER!! MEN ARE FROM MARS SYNDROME WHICH IS WHY THERE ARE SOOO MANY DIVORCES TODAY!! YOU BOTH NEED TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER AND HAVE THE SAME VIEWS ON LIFE FOR IT TO HAVE A DECENT CHANCE. IT REALLY DOES HELP TREMENDOUSLY IF YOU HAVE THE SAME BACKGROUND AND/OR COME FROM THE SAME PLACE BC THERE ARE FAR LESS OBSTACLES TO OVERCOME AND IT WILL BE MUCH HAPPIER AND SMOOTHER SAILING IN THE LONG RUN!
RE YOUR POINT ON THESE PUSHY FEMINISTS CHASING AND SUPPORTING THE MEN=YOU ARE SOO RIGHT! A FEW REAL ESTATE AGENTS TOLD ME THAT WOMEN WERE BUYING THE PLACES FOR THE MEN NOW RATHER THAN THE OTHER WAY AROUND! I COULDN’T BELIEVE WHAT I WAS HEARING!! IF YOU ARE BUYING THE PLACE, DON’T LET THE MAN LIVE WITH YOU LET ALONE MARRY HIM!!! WHAT ARE YOU A DOOR MAT FOR HIM TO WIPE HIS DIRTY FEET ON?? THESE MODERN WOMEN/FEMINISTS FROM HELL HAVE RUINED AND ARE CONTINUING TO RUIN THE COUNTRY WHICH IS WHY THE MEN ARE SOO OUT OF CONTROL!! I BLAME THEM!! IN MEI RULES IT STATES YOU CANNOT CHASE A MAN BC IF HE DOESN’T ASK YOU TO MOVE IN WITH HIM AFTER TWO YEARS OF DATING=YOU ARE NOT “THE ONE”, YOU HAVE TO BE SWEET, NURTURING AND COMPLIMENTARY AND YOU REALLY HAVE TO ADMIRE AND LOOK UP TO THE MAN WHO CHOOSES YOU AS HIS PARTNER, ETC. (BUY THE BOOK)
JR EWING TO THE RESCUE!! MARRIAGE IS DONE=WITH THE EMERGENCE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS LIKE FACEBOOK! IT IS A SAD BUT TRUE REALITY! WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE INTERNET I SAW MORE MARRIAGES BREAK UP DUE TO CHEATING AND TRADING IN PARTNERS FOR BETTER AND MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE OVERSEAS DEALS THAN EVER BEFORE! NOW IT IS 100X WORSE, FAR EASIER AND MORE CONVENIENT WITH THE NEWEST AND LATEST TECHOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN THE MARKETPLACE! WEI ALL LIVE IN A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD THAN OUR PARENTS DID OR THAN WE ALL DID EVEN SIX YEARS AGO!! LIKE THEY SAY, IT IS A MAN’S WORLD AND SOME THINGS WILL NEVER CHANGE SEW GET WITH THE PROGRAM SISTER BECAUSE BOYS WILL BEE BAD BOYS! 🙂
I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT IF I WERE A YOUNG OR OLDER MAN WITH MONEY TODAY, I WOULD NEVER GET MARRIED. THAT’S A FACT! WHY YOU ASK? BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY GORGEOUS, SMART, FUN, SEXY, TALENTED AND FUNNY WOMEN OUT THERE LIKE MEE AND MEN TRAVEL AND GET BORED BEING AROUND THE SAME WOMAN DAY IN AND DAY OUT!! MEN ARE WIRED TO LOVE VARIETY UNLIKE WOMEN WHO ARE WIRED TO LOVE ONE MAN. LIFE IS SHORT AND THEN YUE DIE. THAT IS WHY!! AND BECAUSE THEY CAN!! AND BECAUSE MOST WOMEN ARE CONTROLLING BITCHES FROM HELL, INCLUDING MEE SOMETIMES BUT ON FAR LESS OCCASIONS LATELY THAN MOST=I DON’T CARE TO BE WITH ANYONE IN PARTCULAR=AFTER A WEEK TO TWO MONTHS MAX I GET SICK OF AND PASS ON MOST MEN WHO I MEET SO IT IS A PERFECT SITUATION FOR SOME PEOPLE!! ALTHOUGH I MUST SAY THAT LATELY, I AM VERY INTERESTED IN WHAT IS GOING ON DOWN IN HOUSTON AND DALLAS TEXAS=THE MEN IN DALLAS AND HOUSTON ARE REALLY HOT AND THAT ACCENT JUST DRIVES MEE WILD LATELY!! I ALWAYS DID HAVE A THENG FOR JR EWING! WE’LL SEE!! 🙂
DALLAS
Dallas – ol` JR has still got it
MEI IDEAL HUSBAND + JR A MAN AFTER MEI OWN HEART =
WHERE ARE YOU?? CALL MEE BABY!!
J.R. Ewing
Dallas – ol` JR has still got it
CHARLIE DANIELS BAND
MARRIAGE IS DONE=WITH THE EMERGENCE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS LIKE FACEBOOK! IT IS A SAD BUT TRUE REALITY! WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE INTERNET I SAW MORE MARRIAGES BREAK UP DUE TO CHEATING AND TRADING IN PARTNERS FOR BETTER AND MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE OVERSEAS DEALS THAN EVER BEFORE! NOW IT IS 100X WORSE, FAR EASIER AND MORE CONVENIENT WITH THE NEWEST AND LATEST TECHOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN THE MARKETPLACE! WEI ALL LIVE IN A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD THAN OUR PARENTS DID OR THAN WE ALL DID EVEN SIX YEARS AGO!! LIKE THEY SAY, IT IS A MAN’S WORLD AND SOME THINGS WILL NEVER CHANGE SEW GET WITH THE PROGRAM SISTER BECAUSE BOYS WILL BEE BAD BOYS! 🙂
I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT IF I WERE A YOUNG OR OLDER MAN WITH MONEY TODAY, I WOULD NEVER GET MARRIED. THAT’S A FACT! WHY YOU ASK? BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY GORGEOUS, SMART, FUN, SEXY, TALENTED AND FUNNY WOMEN OUT THERE LIKE MEE AND MEN TRAVEL AND GET BORED BEING AROUND THE SAME WOMAN DAY IN AND DAY OUT!! MEN ARE WIRED TO LOVE VARIETY UNLIKE WOMEN WHO ARE WIRED TO LOVE ONE MAN. LIFE IS SHORT AND THEN YUE DIE. THAT IS WHY!! AND BECAUSE THEY CAN!! AND BECAUSE MOST WOMEN ARE CONTROLLING BITCHES FROM HELL, INCLUDING MEE SOMETIMES BUT ON FAR LESS OCCASIONS LATELY THAN MOST=I DON’T CARE TO BE WITH ANYONE IN PARTCULAR=AFTER A WEEK TO TWO MONTHS MAX I GET SICK OF AND PASS ON MOST MEN WHO I MEET SO IT IS A PERFECT SITUATION FOR SOME PEOPLE!! ALTHOUGH I MUST SAY THAT LATELY, I AM VERY INTERESTED IN WHAT IS GOING ON DOWN IN HOUSTON AND DALLAS TEXAS=THE MEN IN DALLAS AND HOUSTON ARE REALLY HOT AND THAT ACCENT JUST DRIVES MEE WILD LATELY!! I ALWAYS DID HAVE A THENG FOR JR EWING! WE’LL SEE!! 🙂
DALLAS
Dallas – ol` JR has still got it
MEI IDEAL HUSBAND + JR A MAN AFTER MEI OWN HEART =
WHERE ARE YOU?? CALL MEE BABY!!
J.R. Ewing
Dallas – ol` JR has still got it
CHAPEL OF LOVE
BUSHEY ER TEX, THIS ONE ER TWO IS F0R YOU!! TWO IN THE HAND IS WORTH ONE IN THE BUSH OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND?? MARRIAGE IS DONE=WITH THE EMERGENCE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS LIKE FACEBOOK! IT IS A SAD BUT TRUE REALITY! WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE INTERNET I SAW MORE MARRIAGES BREAK UP DUE TO CHEATING AND TRADING IN PARTNERS FOR BETTER AND MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE OVERSEAS DEALS THAN EVER BEFORE! NOW IT IS 100X WORSE, FAR EASIER AND MORE CONVENIENT WITH THE NEWEST AND LATEST TECHOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN THE MARKETPLACE! WEI ALL LIVE IN A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD THAN OUR PARENTS DID OR THAN WE ALL DID EVEN SIX YEARS AGO!! LIKE THEY SAY, IT IS A MAN’S WORLD AND SOME THINGS WILL NEVER CHANGE SEW GET WITH THE PROGRAM SISTER BECAUSE BOYS WILL BEE BAD BOYS! 🙂
I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT IF I WERE A YOUNG OR OLDER MAN WITH MONEY TODAY, I WOULD NEVER GET MARRIED. THAT’S A FACT! WHY YOU ASK? BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY GORGEOUS, SMART, FUN, SEXY, TALENTED AND FUNNY WOMEN OUT THERE LIKE MEE AND MEN TRAVEL AND GET BORED BEING AROUND THE SAME WOMAN DAY IN AND DAY OUT!! MEN ARE WIRED TO LOVE VARIETY UNLIKE WOMEN WHO ARE WIRED TO LOVE ONE MAN. LIFE IS SHORT AND THEN YUE DIE. THAT IS WHY!! AND BECAUSE THEY CAN!! AND BECAUSE MOST WOMEN ARE CONTROLLING BITCHES FROM HELL, INCLUDING MEE SOMETIMES BUT ON FAR LESS OCCASIONS LATELY THAN MOST=I DON’T CARE TO BE WITH ANYONE IN PARTCULAR=AFTER A WEEK TO TWO MONTHS MAX I GET SICK OF AND PASS ON MOST MEN WHO I MEET SO IT IS A PERFECT SITUATION FOR SOME PEOPLE!! ALTHOUGH I MUST SAY THAT LATELY, I AM VERY INTERESTED IN WHAT IS GOING ON DOWN IN HOUSTON AND DALLAS TEXAS=THE MEN IN DALLAS AND HOUSTON ARE REALLY HOT AND THAT ACCENT JUST DRIVES MEE WILD LATELY!! I ALWAYS DID HAVE A THENG FOR JR EWING! WE’LL SEE!! 🙂
DALLAS
Dallas – ol` JR has still got it
MEI IDEAL HUSBAND + JR A MAN AFTER MEI OWN HEART =
WHERE ARE YOU?? CALL MEE BABY!!
J.R. Ewing
Dallas – ol` JR has still got it
Dallas – JR and Bobby reunited
Dallas 2012 – THERE IS A JR IN MEI FAMILY=GUESS WHO IT IS + GUESS WITCH CHARACTER OF THE EWING FAMILY I AM AND INSTEAD OF SOUTHFORK GUESS WHICH TOWN WEI ARE FROM??
CHAPEL OF LOVE
BUSHEY ER TEX, THIS ONE ER TWO IS F0R YOU!! TWO IN THE HAND IS WORTH ONE IN THE BUSH OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND?? MARRIAGE IS DONE=WITH THE EMERGENCE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS LIKE FACEBOOK! IT IS A SAD BUT TRUE REALITY! WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE INTERNET I SAW MORE MARRIAGES BREAK UP DUE TO CHEATING AND TRADING IN PARTNERS FOR BETTER AND MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE OVERSEAS DEALS THAN EVER BEFORE! NOW IT IS 100X WORSE, FAR EASIER AND MORE CONVENIENT WITH THE NEWEST AND LATEST TECHOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN THE MARKETPLACE! WEI ALL LIVE IN A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD THAN OUR PARENTS DID OR THAN WE ALL DID EVEN SIX YEARS AGO!! LIKE THEY SAY, IT IS A MAN’S WORLD AND SOME THINGS WILL NEVER CHANGE SEW GET WITH THE PROGRAM SISTER BECAUSE BOYS WILL BEE BAD BOYS! 🙂
I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT IF I WERE A YOUNG OR OLDER MAN WITH MONEY TODAY, I WOULD NEVER GET MARRIED. THAT’S A FACT! WHY YOU ASK? BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY GORGEOUS, SMART, FUN, SEXY, TALENTED AND FUNNY WOMEN OUT THERE LIKE MEE AND MEN TRAVEL AND GET BORED BEING AROUND THE SAME WOMAN DAY IN AND DAY OUT!! MEN ARE WIRED TO LOVE VARIETY UNLIKE WOMEN WHO ARE WIRED TO LOVE ONE MAN. LIFE IS SHORT AND THEN YUE DIE. THAT IS WHY!! AND BECAUSE THEY CAN!! AND BECAUSE MOST WOMEN ARE CONTROLLING BITCHES FROM HELL, INCLUDING MEE SOMETIMES BUT ON FAR LESS OCCASIONS LATELY THAN MOST=I DON’T CARE TO BE WITH ANYONE IN PARTCULAR=AFTER A WEEK TO TWO MONTHS MAX I GET SICK OF AND PASS ON MOST MEN WHO I MEET SO IT IS A PERFECT SITUATION FOR SOME PEOPLE!! ALTHOUGH I MUST SAY THAT LATELY, I AM VERY INTERESTED IN WHAT IS GOING ON DOWN IN HOUSTON AND DALLAS TEXAS=THE MEN IN DALLAS AND HOUSTON ARE REALLY HOT AND THAT ACCENT JUST DRIVES MEE WILD LATELY!! I ALWAYS DID HAVE A THENG FOR JR EWING! WE’LL SEE!! 🙂
DALLAS
Dallas – ol` JR has still got it
MEI IDEAL HUSBAND + JR A MAN AFTER MEI OWN HEART =
WHERE ARE YOU?? CALL MEE BABY!!
J.R. Ewing
Dallas – ol` JR has still got it
Dallas – JR and Bobby reunited
Dallas 2012 – THERE IS A JR IN MEI FAMILY=GUESS WHO IT IS + GUESS WITCH CHARACTER OF THE EWING FAMILY I AM AND INSTEAD OF SOUTHFORK GUESS WHICH TOWN WEI ARE FROM??
CHAPEL OF LOVE