[AVisitor]

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/1...port-shows

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A new report shows that the share of American adults who are married dropped to a record low in 2009-2010 — to just a smidgen over half of population 18 and older. And the age at which Americans first tie the knot has never been higher, according to analysis of U.S. Census data by Pew Research Center published Wednesday.

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More dramatic news from the report was a 5 percent decrease in the number of new marriages between 2009 and 2010, an unusually sharp one-year drop that “may or may not be related to the sour economy,” according to the Pew study.

The age of first marriages has climbed to a record high of 26.5 for brides and 28.7 for grooms, Pew reports.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/marr...story.html

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The proportion of adults who are married has plunged to record lows as more people decide to live together now and wed later, reflecting decades of evolving attitudes about the role of marriage in society.

Just 51 percent of all adults who are 18 and older are married, placing them on the brink of becoming a minority, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census statistics to be released Wednesday. That represents a steep drop from 57 percent who were married in 2000.

Maryland is a little below the national average, at 50 percent, while Virginia is a little higher, at 54 percent, and both are declining. But in the District, which experienced an influx of young adults over the past decade, only one in four adults is married while more than half have never wed.

[Timoteo]

NICE. And may the numbers continue to fall even further. Until men continue to say no to marriage, American women will continue down their current path.

[Future82]

This is awesome news!

[Vitriol]

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an unusually sharp one-year drop that “may or may not be related to the sour economy,” according to the Pew study.

Media outlets have to play nice, so they're making a vague statment like this instead of saying: "More American males are realizing that marriage is a fucking scam which only benefits females and costs males. They are declining to enter into such an unfavorable agreement in record numbers."

[AVisitor]

(12-14-2011 03:10 PM)Vitriol Wrote:  

Media outlets have to play nice, so they're making a vague statment like this instead of saying: "More American males are realizing that marriage is a fucking scam which only benefits females and costs males. They are declining to enter into such an unfavorable agreement in record numbers."

Things have changed a little; these days, it's the WOMEN who DON'T want to get married, and the men who do. The roles have switched.

http://yourlife.usatoday.com/sex-relatio...43219110/1

[Samseau]

(12-14-2011 03:50 PM)AVisitor Wrote:  

(12-14-2011 03:10 PM)Vitriol Wrote:  

Media outlets have to play nice, so they're making a vague statment like this instead of saying: "More American males are realizing that marriage is a fucking scam which only benefits females and costs males. They are declining to enter into such an unfavorable agreement in record numbers."

Things have changed a little; these days, it's the WOMEN who DON'T want to get married, and the men who do. The roles have switched.

http://yourlife.usatoday.com/sex-relatio...43219110/1

This is the weird part. Even if men stopped getting married, I'm not sure women would care too much.

Seems to me America is experiencing cultural suicide

[Vitriol]

(12-14-2011 05:07 PM)Samseau Wrote:  

This is the weird part. Even if men stopped getting married, I'm not sure women would care too much.

Seems to me America is experiencing cultural suicide

If you look at the things that traditionally made most cultures great, I don't think it's really possible in contemporary America. We're probably better off with booze and whores than trying to fight a losing battle and save a dying culture that already has too much momentum going against us.

Even if you tried to get married, start a family, and stay in the USA, your children are going to have it even worse than we do now.