Marriage as a social institution is on the rocks. For the first time in history, there are more single adults than married Americans: some 124.6 million single adults. By comparison, in 1960 over 70 percent of Americans were married. Young couples today are just not buying into marriage like they used to. Despite the fact that the millennial generation is the largest in history (73 million strong in 2019 and aged 23-to-38) and reaching the age when people historically have settled down into married life, the rate of marriage is declining …
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