Yes, many of them have seen declining membership. Take a look at this news article.
Masons, other service groups fight membership declines
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-01-31-masons31_ST_N.htm
With the various economic and social order shifts and breakdowns that have taken place over the last 50 years I’m not surprised to see this.
Once family goes on the decline so does the rest of a nation.
Brilliant research, Jack Hydrazine! That is what I had suspected. When I was a kid, a lot of the men in the neighborhood belonged to something. It was the K of C, Rotary, VFW... something. I don’t know any of the men in our neighborhood now that belong to a group or organization like the ones mentioned in the article. In our entire neighborhood, there is one Dad that is a Scout leader... that’s it.