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An All-time Lowby Byron Ware You glance at the front page of your newspaper, or web site, to know what the big stories are. couples stories Couple counseling. Last Friday the headline in mine read, "U. S. marriage rate dips to all-time low. couples stories Marriage intimacy. " Rutgers University's National Marriage Project touted as a benchmark compilation of statistics and surveys, found that the nation's marriage rate has dipped by 43 percent in four decades. The marriage rate is now 49. 7 per 1,000 people, the researchers said, down from 87 per 1,000 in 1960. couples stories Colorado-common-law-marriage. This leaves the U. S. marriage rate at its lowest point in recorded history. "Young people today want successful marriages, but they are increasingly anxious and pessimistic about their chances for achieving that goal," said Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, co-director of the project. In other words, Americans love the idea of marriage, but are pessimistic to the point of exploring alternatives to marriage. Add to this the fact that the divorce rate, before declining slightly in recent years, had soared more than 30 percent since 1970. At this point I want to ask, "How low will we go?" The National Marriage Project report blames the declining marriage rate on people marrying later in life and on more couples living together outside of marriage. According to the report, nearly half of people between ages 25 and 40 have at some point set up a joint household with a member of the opposite sex outside of marriage. In my next column I will give you more information from the National Marriage Project regarding their study on cohabitation. "How low will we go?" So what does this report mean to you? Children in your community are more likely to drop out of school, have bad marriages themselves, be involved in drug and alcohol abuse, and teenage pregnancy when there is not a committed mom and dad that are married. Adults usually have more health and emotional problems, earn less, save less, are more likely to abuse drugs, less likely to be homeowners, and less likely to invest for their future. Employees that are not married are less productive.
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