Posted on 05/20/2015 7:13:10 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Millennials are poised to become the nation's largest living generation this year. As they grow as a percentage of the population, more of them will reach the age at which Americans historically have gotten married. And many baby-boomer parents are probably eagerly anticipating the big day when their son or daughter walks down the aisle (and the grandkids that will follow.)
But, according to new research, millennials are not showing many signs of interest in getting hitched as they get older, and, as a result, the marriage rate is expected to fall by next year to its lowest level to date.
That is a finding by Demographic Intelligence, a forecasting firm with a strong track record. "Millennials are such a big generation, we're going to have more people of prime marriage age in the next five years than we've had at any time in U.S. history. For that alone, we'd expect an uptick in marriage rates," said Sam Sturgeon, president of Demographic Intelligence. "That's not happening."
In the firm's new U.S. Wedding Forecast, compiled from demographic data, Google searches and a host of other variables, Sturgeon projects that by 2016, the marriage rate will fall to 6.7 per 1,000 people, a historic low. That includes people getting married for the second or third time.
In 1867, the first year for which national marriage statistics were recorded, the marriage rate was 9.6 per 1,000 Americans. It peaked in 1946 at 16.4 per 1,000 as men were returning from World War II, and it bounced around from 8.5 in 1960 to a high of 10.8 in the mid-1980s. Starting in the 1990s, it began a long and, in the 1990s, precipitous drop.
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***millennials are not showing many signs of interest in getting hitched as they get older,***....UNLESS THEY ARE QUEER AS A THREE DOLLAR BILL.
Then it becomes the most important thing they can do.
Snark.
40 is indeed the new 20.
Isn’t there a story about free milk and a cow?
The female couples will get one of them inseminated, or even IFV treatments, paid for by guess who? YOU! And the misguided males will acquire surrogates/gestational carriers/reproductive concubines and run them through artificial insemination or IVF, and then purchase the product/progeny. Paid for by guess who? YOU! Because... Obamacare.
For cheap rentals they can rent women in Nepal or some other Third World country.
For a cheerful and more local Baby-Sorta-Mama, they may be able to lease a Christian uterus in the Midwest.
"Gay Men, Christian Wombs: the New Surrogacy"
Our world. Such as it is.
True! Radical! You’re Catholic?
“I (heart) My Granddog”
IMO, a wistful & sad statement by someone who wants grandchildren but will never become a grandparent, and knows it.
Or, a more subtle version of: “You’ve been married over a year now. When are you going to give us grandchildren?”
When LBJ stood for re-election I was six months old.
Seriously, for most of us our view of Millenials is based on polling of Millenials, which yields some truly frightening results.
Rush Limbaugh has been almost frantic about it in recent days. I think he’s about ready to throw in the towel. These polls paint the picture of a coming generation that thinks America has failed and they’re more than willing to experiment with alternate models (i.e. Socialism)
I have two Millenial daughters who do not fit the mold.
I doubt they ever get polled either.
Well, sure! My main thought was about procreation, not alternative use, if you will.
The fact that 'gheyghs' have to resort to these extraordinary means testifies to the inherent futility of their 'natural' place in the scheme of God's intentions.
The underlying tenet of the whole thing is that they cannot reproduce without the help of a female of the species of some kind involved. And that is what makes their lifestyle's justification invalid.
Gay sex (oral/anal)is essentially a kind of artificial sex. A parody of sex. A sad and disappointing one, too. Even if it's done by heterosexuals.
Yes, I am blessed to call myself a Catholic.
I'm happy you're a Catholic (me too) and would even be happy if you were the one-in-a-million anti-contraception Protestant. There are a few here in FR-Land
It's about having a really coherent and sacramental sense of sexuality --- terribly hard for any of us, in a society such as ours.
More likely pollsters don't talk to them.
Yup, but married? Some, but most are probably shacking or engaged for 12 years.
My oldest was married at 24
My second is looking at marriage at 23
My third is in a serious relaiotnshp and I expect him to be married at 21
My fourth..thinks it is the opposite sex of its dna...sigh.
I’m still married to my first wife, nearly 32 years. But neither of my sons is basement-dwelling slugs.
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