Personally, I married pretty late. I was 17 years older than my parents when I married.
The stats by education level are surprising given the increasing difficulty of survival on a single income without roommates. I’m left to gather that marriage as an institution is losing popularity, with informal (to the government) long-term partnerships conferring sufficient desired benefits.
It says in the article that couples forgoing marriage account for a some of this, but it’s mostly people remaining single.
If one defines “single” as “lives alone/with platonic roommates,” sure. I’ve been with my partner for three years and live alone because of geography, but I would not consider myself single.
I’m surprised it is that high.
I am one. AMA
Almost past the 4 oh, and consider the institution of marriage in a legal sense, an outdated scam of misogynistic patriarchal nonsense. I know there are a broad spectrum of roles, not just CIS, and it has to do with inheritance/benefits/property/etc. Don’t catfish my stereotype that has obvious exceptions. All I’m saying is that I feel like the system has a misogynistic patriarchal asymmetrical prejudice built in. I am not interested in the type of asymmetric role I was raised to accept in a religious extremest culture. In my personal situation, this would be a disadvantage, but still, I have no interest in an asymmetric relationship of any kind. IMO, marriage is like a will that is only useful in old age.
My parents married at 18/25 and are married still, 46 years later, and still love each other and stuff. I’m in my 40’s with a kid, never married and can’t see myself ever getting married.
Why can’t you see yourself getting married?
I just could never picture it, not even as a kid. I guess I don’t want to be with someone in that way. Are you married/want to be married?
Probably directly proportional to religion falling out of favor.
I don’t think trusts the case. It works explain why black people or people with less education have higher lower rates of being married.
Not sure what you’re trying to say. Sorry.
