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Married couples a minority among all couples in the US (Breaking on Drudge)
Drudge ^ | 10/14/06 | Drudge report

Posted on 10/14/2006 11:40:40 AM PDT by voletti

IT'S OFFICIAL: TO BE MARRIED MEANS TO BE OUTNUMBERED...

49.7%, or 55.2 million, of the nation's 111.1 million households in 2005 were made up of married couples -- with/without children -- just shy of majority...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: fornication; marriage
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To: voletti
Several years ago I joked to hubby that we were going to have to hide the wedding pictures so that Hobbit Lass wouldn't be embarrassed because her mom and dad were married. Guess I wasn't too far off mark.
21 posted on 10/14/2006 12:32:10 PM PDT by Samwise (All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.)
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To: Luke21
I got married at 19. Still am thirty years later. Nobody ever interviews me.

Not quite caught up to you, yet. Married at 19. Currently at 13 years, 10 months, and 13 days. You want the hours and seconds too?

22 posted on 10/14/2006 12:35:17 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: aquila48

Yeah, I want my special rights....people don't understand how hard it is to be married. Government needs to help us....


23 posted on 10/14/2006 12:36:50 PM PDT by mockingbyrd (Good heavens! What women these Christians have-----Libanus)
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To: AngrySpud

Did you get a lot of flack for marrying at 19? Or how about, "How's married life?" for the millionth time?


24 posted on 10/14/2006 12:37:49 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: wagglebee
Married since 1983. I can't imagine anything else, really.

It's wonderful.

25 posted on 10/14/2006 12:41:08 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
America is overwhelmingly friendly to marriage and the vast, vast majority of people are participants.

Very true.

There are a lot of breakups, though, and I think it's all attributable to the incredible array of choices and dillemas offered by modern life. One party in the marriage will be offered "the big job" at some location the other party doesn't want to move to; one party will return to school and find his or her mindset no longer meshing with the other; one party will go on a "health kick" and get fit while the other remains slovenly; one party will become radically liberal while the other remains conservative (or vice-versa); one party will fall into a group of friends the other abhors; one party will give up drink or drugs while the other continues to imbibe.

The list just goes on and on. We all change so much these days, even in a span of months, that it's difficult to keep it all together. And it's not helped by the number of people who marry for "convenience" or simply to have children, or for money and "comfort," rather than waiting for true love -- which does exist, no matter what the gloom-and-doomers say.

In this, as in a lot of things, it was better in the "good old days."

26 posted on 10/14/2006 12:48:38 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: cripplecreek

People are not maturing fast enough and are not marrying soon enough IMO. After a while, people don't see a point in getting married and they do their best to justify that decision.


27 posted on 10/14/2006 1:03:11 PM PDT by bahblahbah
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To: voletti

My husband and I met at ages 16 and 17. We just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary last August. We married at ages 21 and 22. It WAS a lot of work. Retirement will be the test...we don't have kids.


28 posted on 10/14/2006 1:06:11 PM PDT by madison10 (Live your life in such a way that the preacher won't have to lie at your funeral.)
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To: cripplecreek
I was married at 21. Just celebrated my 30th anniversary.

A long marriage depends on the individual's maturity level and what they actually expect out of another person. You need some breathing room in a relationship. If your entire happiness revolves around another, you will suffocate each other.
29 posted on 10/14/2006 1:11:32 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: voletti
I assume the following is the info Drudge is touting......

United States and States
R1101. Percent of Households That are Married-Couple Families: 2005
Universe: Households  
Data Set: 2005 American Community Survey
Survey: 2005 American Community Survey, 2005 Puerto Rico Community Survey

NOTE. Data are limited to the household population and exclude the population living in institutions, college dormitories, and other group quarters. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see .

Rank Ordered by Rank

State

Percent

Margin of Error

1

Utah

61.5

+/-1.1

2

Idaho

56.3

+/-1.2

3

New Hampshire

54.3

+/-1.1

4

Hawaii

53.4

+/-1.1

4

Wyoming

53.4

+/-1.6

6

Iowa

53.2

+/-0.7

7

Kansas

52.7

+/-0.8

7

Minnesota

52.7

+/-0.6

9

West Virginia

52.5

+/-0.9

10

Nebraska

52.4

+/-0.8

11

Montana

52.1

+/-1.2

12

South Dakota

51.9

+/-1.2

13

New Jersey

51.8

+/-0.5

14

Texas

51.7

+/-0.4

15

Indiana

51.6

+/-0.6

16

Kentucky

51.5

+/-0.6

17

Maine

51.3

+/-1.1

18

Virginia

51.2

+/-0.5

19

Arkansas

51.1

+/-0.8

20

Connecticut

51.0

+/-0.7

20

North Dakota

51.0

+/-1.2

20

Oklahoma

51.0

+/-0.7

23

Wisconsin

50.8

+/-0.5

24

Delaware

50.3

+/-1.3

24

Missouri

50.3

+/-0.6

26

Michigan

50.1

+/-0.4

27

Alaska

49.9

+/-1.5

27

Colorado

49.9

+/-0.6

29

Alabama

49.8

+/-0.6

29

Pennsylvania

49.8

+/-0.4

29

Tennessee

49.8

+/-0.6

29

Washington

49.8

+/-0.5

 

United States

49.7

+/-0.2

33

California

49.7

+/-0.3

33

Illinois

49.7

+/-0.3

35

Georgia

49.5

+/-0.4

36

Ohio

49.4

+/-0.4

36

Oregon

49.4

+/-0.7

38

North Carolina

49.3

+/-0.4

39

Maryland

49.0

+/-0.6

40

Arizona

48.9

+/-0.6

41

Vermont

48.5

+/-1.6

42

South Carolina

48.2

+/-0.7

43

Florida

47.9

+/-0.3

43

New Mexico

47.9

+/-1.1

45

Massachusetts

47.6

+/-0.6

46

Nevada

47.5

+/-0.9

47

Rhode Island

46.8

+/-1.4

48

Mississippi

46.5

+/-0.8

49

Louisiana

45.9

+/-0.8

50

New York

44.9

+/-0.3

51

District of Columbia

21.8

+/-1.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Puerto Rico

48.0

+/-0.6


Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2005 American Community Survey

Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate arising from sampling variability is represented through the use of a margin of error. The value shown here is the 90 percent margin of error. The margin of error can be interpreted roughly as providing a 90 percent probability that the interval defined by the estimate minus the margin of error and the estimate plus the margin of error (the lower and upper confidence bounds) contains the true value. In addition to sampling variability, the ACS estimates are subject to nonsampling error (for a discussion of nonsampling variability, see Accuracy of the Data). The effect of nonsampling error is not represented in these tables.

30 posted on 10/14/2006 1:13:12 PM PDT by deport (The Governor, The Foghorn, The Dingaling, The Joker, some other fellar...... The Governor Wins)
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To: CaptainK

It may seem odd but I was more in love with the idea of being married than I was with my first wife.


31 posted on 10/14/2006 1:14:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: All

Never married.....49 yrs old. Was never on my agenda.....


32 posted on 10/14/2006 1:15:11 PM PDT by Fawn (http://www.jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/toilet_obsession.html)
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To: voletti

I got married at 23, 12 years ago. The grass will never, ever be greener on the other side of the fence. I'm married to my best friend. That kind of consistent love is a conscious, deliberate decision for both of us.

In our church we form groups of ladies that meet once a month for a meal. The program is called "Titus II", which seeks to follow this pattern:

"Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God."


33 posted on 10/14/2006 1:19:52 PM PDT by agrarianlady
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To: voletti

Does this include the fudge packers who "marry" in Massachusetts?


34 posted on 10/14/2006 1:20:02 PM PDT by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: voletti
DAMMIT, I'M MARRIED, AND I'M A MINORITY! WHERE'S MY GOVERNMENT CHECK?!
I WANT REPARATIONS!
I NEED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE! I'M A MINORITY AND I DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS!!

< \LIBERAL MINDSET>
35 posted on 10/14/2006 1:23:38 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of "dependence on government"!)
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To: deport
District of Columbia = 21.8%

BWAAAAAA!!!! HAAAA!!!! HHHAaaaaa!!!! haaaa!!!! D.C. - where liberalism rules and is THE way of life. The results are in!

36 posted on 10/14/2006 1:26:35 PM PDT by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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My parents have been married for 42 years. Hubby's parents have been married for 45 or so. We married at the age of 24 and celebrated our 17th anniversary a couple of months ago.

IMHO, too many people think marriage is only about "love." It's not just about love. It's about making a LIFE LONG commitment to another human being. I also think too many people have unrealistic expectations of what marriage will be like...or what it should be like.

I can't imagine going through life referring to him as "my partner" or "my significant other."

Anyway, God only knows how I ended up with the man I have. He's just a good and decent guy, plain and simple! And I'm so thankful!


37 posted on 10/14/2006 1:30:50 PM PDT by RoseyT
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To: Fawn

Never married.....49 yrs old. Was never on my agenda.....

It took me 46 years to find the right one. Got four kids with the package. Now one son in law and a grandson. Planning on mentoring the grandson into a total hooligan. Never knew how lonely I was until I got them all.


38 posted on 10/14/2006 1:32:30 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (If you read only one book this year, read "Stolen Valor".)
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To: voletti
"The Europeanization of America proceeds apace?"

We're already 40 years into it.

39 posted on 10/14/2006 1:51:27 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Bon mots
Marriage has been turned into a one-way contract written against the interests of men, and to enable women to totally screw them out of their hard-earned financial assets. Why any guy would sign such a contract these days mystifies me.

According to standard wisdom among social scientists, he does it for sex.

40 posted on 10/14/2006 2:02:25 PM PDT by freespirited (The MSM is the root of all evil.)
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