Well, duh. It is much more financially lucrative to “not” marry.
As I have said on this forum for TEN YEARS now, to derision of the snotty class: We have our own people who need jobs that will pay a wage that takes care of a family. These are people who are not cut out for college or a high-paying trade. There are tens of millions of them...and our imbecilic leaders have given away their meager dreams to China & a bunch of usurping Mexicans.
I wonder what these geniuses expected to happen when a single mother has a better lifestyle on “benefits” than she would if she married the Father?
This should be titled “Marriage Declines Due to the Weakened Middle Class.”
The marriage decline happened first, though.