Change custody and alimony laws and maybe men will want to get married.
I’m sure we could list out different things contributing to the decline of marriage.
I would add some items of note.
1. Today’s young people earn less, adjusted for inflation, than some past generations. Such economic difficulty can make many, especially young men, wonder how they can ever support a family.
2. Housing is more expensive in many areas nowadays, adjusted for inflation.
3. Nobody talks.much of sex , but that is no longer any factor in people especially men, in any desire for marriage.
4. Many young women today are not appealing as potential marriage partners.
5. Delayed maturity/adulthood in young adults.
6. Young men especially, who enjoy the single life, including Hefner’s Playboy philosophy, may not want to give up what they feel is a fine single life, to be tied down with someone.
7. Too many look at children as a burden. They just don’t want that type of life.
8. Some women, and men too, are so selective about their criteria for a mate, that nobody they meet can meet their standards.
And get rid of no fault divorce.
Really this will not help.
Mindset of women needs to change and that is not going to happen.