Posted on 07/23/2014 11:48:39 AM PDT by Faith Presses On
While only about 18 percent of Gen X women were married by 40, the number of their Millennial counterparts waiting till age 40 to tie the knot could now almost double, according to a recent study.
Using data from the American Community Survey to estimate age-specific marriage rates, Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute finds that the percentage of Millennials marrying by age 40 will fall lower than for any previous generation of Americans, even in a scenario where marriage rates recover considerably.
In the early millennium period, from 2000 to 2004, the peak first marriage rate for single U.S.-born women at each year of age from 20 to 40 was .099. This indicated that among never-married single women age 25 in that period, just under 10 percent would have married a year later at age 26, says the study titled, "Fewer Marriages, More Divergence: Marriage Projections for Millennials to Age 40."
From 2004 to 2008, the immediate prerecession period, the peak rate was .088, and in the recession-and-after period, from 2008 to 2012, the peak rate further came down to .075, according to the study.
During the Great Recession, the marriage rate fell because many young adults struggled to get their first jobs and many others were laid off.
If the post-recession marriage rate remains unchanged, only 69.3 percent of women will tie the knot until they reach the age of 40, the study estimates. And if the marriage rate returns to the prerecession levels, it will increase only to 76.8 percent, it adds. Among men, the rates projected are 65 percent and 72.6 percent, respectively.
In any case, the rates will be lower than those among Gen Xers, as about 82 percent of Gen X women and 76.6 percent of Gen X men were married by 40.
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Neither is hard work, personal hygiene or flossing, from what I’ve seen.
Unless it is same sex marriage.
Huh?
So 82% of Gen-X women were not married by 40?
I find that hard to believe
I guess it's a typo
crap you beat me to that comment!
Couldn’t resist.
Interesting. I think that, for various reasons, many young people don’t see any reason to get married.
I’m not going to blame the kids for this one — older generations set the stage for the destruction of marriage as an institution. If we want to know why an 18 year old doesn’t think he or she needs to get married, us older Americans need to look in the mirror.
Exactly!
“While only about 18 percent of Gen X women were married by 40”
From the same article:
“about 82 percent of Gen X women and 76.6 percent of Gen X men were married by 40.”
I think the author is confused in his use of statistics.
Just an observation: As the birthrate for caucasians declines the birthrates for Hispanics, Muslims etc. is remaining the same or increasing. In about two generations we will birth control ourselves into minority status. I fortunately will have passed on.
I found the wording confusing as well. I think the writer wanted to prove a certain point, thus swept a couple of unrelated ‘facts’ into one pile of statements.
The communist agenda playing out before our very eyes.
How could this possibly be true? That's a generational wipeout--or a complete transition to bastardry as the preferred mode of propagation.
Seriously. Why should they buy the cow when the get the milk for free?
I don’t agree with it. But that’s the way it is.
Exact same thing going on in Europe for decades.
It is common in that continent for grandparents to outnumber their grandchildren these days.
Or just couldn’t tie the “not” in the first sentence.
As a Gen Xer, I can tell you that there are other big reasons, too.
Many kids my age were latchkeys that were left to fend for themselves, and whose parents were either long-divorced, or MINO (married in name only). A lot of us lived in such screwed-up homes, that it was hard to justify the idea of putting another generation of children through that.
On top of that, there is also the factor of a ruined economy, and no more job (let alone ‘career’) security. Hence, for a lot of the young men especially, of my generational cohort, marrigeable women don’t exactly see us as a good prospect.
Don’t disagree about your analysis of causes. My boys in their mid-20’s probably feel much like you do about the institution of marriage, despite their great girlfriends. And, we had a pretty good family life—but they have friends who don’t, and they’ve observed some brutal divorces among my less fortunate friends.
I just find the stated number of 18% to be astoundingly, almost impossibly low.
Their priority seems to be high number of likes on Instagram. They also like to spew hatred for people who disagree with pop-culture’s favorite political causes (mostly anonymously on the internet.
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