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Why 25% of Millennials Will Never Get Married
TIME ^ | 09/24/2014 | Belinda Luscombe

Posted on 09/24/2014 7:11:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A new report from Pew Research predicts that more folks under 35 will be single forever. Here's why

The number of Americans who have always been single and will never marry is at a historic high, says a new Pew Research report, partly because they don’t have jobs and partly because marriage is becoming less highly-regarded.

Most people think it’s important for couples who intend to stay together to be married, but the number of single Americans who want to get married has dropped significantly even in the last four years.

The report, based on census data and Pew’s surveys, is the latest in a series of indicators that marriage’s stock is on a sharp downward trajectory. Fewer young people are getting married and many are getting married later. About 20% of Americans older than 25 had always been single in 2012, up from 9% in 1960. In the black community, the numbers are even starker: 36% of black Americans older than 25 have never been married, a fourfold increase from 50 years ago.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: demographics; marriage; millennials
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1 posted on 09/24/2014 7:11:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Free milk.....99%


2 posted on 09/24/2014 7:14:30 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

>>Free milk.....99%<<

100% correct.


3 posted on 09/24/2014 7:16:21 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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To: SeekAndFind

Disgusting hygiene? Immaturity? Bad manners? Lacking social skills? No job? No house? Boy, I could do this all day.


4 posted on 09/24/2014 7:19:04 PM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Child #1:
daughter born 1980; age 34; married for five years; but do not want children.

Child #2:
son born 1983; age 31; married for 10 years; has two children.

Child #3:
son born 1987; age 27; not married; not interested in having a family.


5 posted on 09/24/2014 7:22:44 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: CodeToad

I think the big one is feminism — nothing has destroyed femininity [or even the quality of graciousness] quite so well.


6 posted on 09/24/2014 7:24:39 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Yep, that is a good one. Emasculating boys until they aren’t attractive to women anymore.


7 posted on 09/24/2014 7:25:45 PM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: SeekAndFind

With divorce laws the way they are, is anyone surprised? The laws are generally designed to screw people.


8 posted on 09/24/2014 7:25:48 PM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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To: SeekAndFind

Some of these kids saw the destruction caused by divorce and fear that more than they desire to be married.


9 posted on 09/24/2014 7:28:33 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

If I had it to do over again, I would have gotten married earlier, and started having children earlier. I’ve been fortunate to have had a lot of experiences in my life so far, and have seen lots of different parts of the world, but none of that has any meaning when compared to having a child and a family. Nothing. I started relatively late. It’s so ironic that the result of ‘higher education’ is often to get so wrapped up in career and whatever ‘success’ is that you put off or never do what’s really meaningful in life.


10 posted on 09/24/2014 7:28:34 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Mark17

People? More specifically, you mean men, right?


11 posted on 09/24/2014 7:30:02 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: umgud

More likely , the millenials are enveloped in narcissism, as were their parents.
I, for one, would be most grateful if they stay in the basement and do NOT procreate.


12 posted on 09/24/2014 7:32:14 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
Agreed, that raising children is the paramount reason for our existence. There is a trade-off between affording it and doing it somewhere.

It is unfortunate that the present generation is either making babies and living off the dole or struggling to make enough to support a family or afford one. That is the most insidious effect of the current economic situation, and unfortunately, it is disproportionately affecting the more productive demographics, or at least those which would be in better economic circumstance.

13 posted on 09/24/2014 7:32:31 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: umgud
Some of these kids saw the destruction caused by divorce and fear that more than they desire to be married.

That may be a factor, too. Not only is there the economic destruction in divorce, but the emotional impact as well. If they have suffered that, they may have little faith in stable relationships. Even growing up in a home where the parents remained together is no guarantee when surrounded by a peer group who suffers the effects.

14 posted on 09/24/2014 7:35:39 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Mark17
With divorce laws the way they are, is anyone surprised? The laws are generally designed to screw people.

People?! You mean MEN. For men, marriage is like walking into a casino and putting at least 50% of everything you make and own, and everything you will EVER make and own, and betting it all on red/black on the roulette wheel. Actually, the odds probably aren't even as good as 50/50. Have a couple of kids before things go south, and the odds are even worse.

15 posted on 09/24/2014 7:40:03 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: RegulatorCountry
People? More specifically, you mean men, right?

I do indeed sir. There are, of course, always some exceptions to the rule, but generally speaking, yes, that is what I meant. I had to laugh when I heard people say, instead of getting married, just find a woman you hate, and buy her a house, but sometimes, it is almost close to the truth.

16 posted on 09/24/2014 7:43:07 PM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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To: SeekAndFind

If this is true, the America those of us over 50 grew up in is dead and gone.

This country will become third world in 1 or 2 generations.

Sad!


17 posted on 09/24/2014 7:46:15 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SeekAndFind

Many of their potential spouses were aborted.


18 posted on 09/24/2014 7:51:09 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: freedumb2003

Not 100% that, though it is certainly a big part of it.

A lot of it has to do with the fact that many of their parents divorced and, when they divorced, the parents inflicted as much pain as possible on their ex.


19 posted on 09/24/2014 7:52:58 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
If I had it to do over again, I would have gotten married earlier, and started having children earlier. I’ve been fortunate to have had a lot of experiences in my life so far, and have seen lots of different parts of the world, but none of that has any meaning when compared to having a child and a family. Nothing. I started relatively late. It’s so ironic that the result of ‘higher education’ is often to get so wrapped up in career and whatever ‘success’ is that you put off or never do what’s really meaningful in life.

I feel the same way, and I hope some of the young people reading your post will be influenced by it.

20 posted on 09/24/2014 8:02:30 PM PDT by American Guesser
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