More Americans than ever have never married: survey

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A record 20 percent of adult Americans, or 42 million people, have never married, marking a U.S. demographic and social shift, according to an analysis released on Wednesday.


The rise in never-married adults is caused by several factors, including later ages for marriage and more people living together and raising children outside of wedlock, the report by the Pew Research Center said.

In 2012, 23 percent of men and 17 percent of women 25 and older had never been married, marking a widening gap between the sexes. In 1960, 10 percent of men and 8 percent of women had never married, said the Pew report.

"Shifting public attitudes, hard economic times and changing demographic patterns may all be contributing to the rising share of never-married adults," Pew said. The analysis was based on Census Bureau data and a Pew survey.

The trend is especially pronounced among black Americans. Thirty-six percent of blacks had not been married in 2012, four times the level in 1960.

The share of never-married adults for whites has roughly doubled over the same period to 16 percent and for Hispanics to 26 percent, the Pew survey said.

About half, or 53 percent, of never-married adults said they would like to marry eventually, down from 61 percent in 2010, Pew said.

Men and women are looking for different qualities in potential spouses. Among never-married women, 78 percent say finding someone with a steady job would be very important.

For 70 percent of men, sharing similar views about raising children is more important than finding someone with a steady job.

Pew said the percentage of never-married adults has climbed as the gap in earnings between men and women has narrowed since 1980.

The median hourly wages for men 25 to 34 years old are down by a fifth over the same period. Young men's participation in the work force has also dropped since 1960.

The median age at first marriage is 27 for women and 29 for men, up from 20 and 23 respectively in 1960.

The Pew survey was carried out from May 22 to 25 and from May 29 to June 1 among 2,003 adults 18 and older. The margin of error is 2.5 percentage points.
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Now who else wanna fukk with Hollywood Court?
What's really telling is this -
Men and women are looking for different qualities in potential spouses. Among never-married women, 78 percent say finding someone with a steady job would be very important.

For 70 percent of men, sharing similar views about raising children is more important than finding someone with a steady job.


Dudes just want an actual partner, women out chea looking for business associates :wow:
 

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Did you see the part about blacks?

Black's place more importance than whites on finding a partner with a steady job before marriage and among unmarried young Black's there are 51 employed men for every 100 women.

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Remember when I said black women should be happy with a nukka making 12 a hour whose faithful and they tried to throw dirt on me

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"If you go back a generation or two, couols would literally take the plunge together and build up finances and nest eggs together, now it seems to be this attitude to build households up before they get married"

Remember how I said women don't want to build anymore :sas1:


Get married brehs I continue to be right :ufdup:
 

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his explains why I and the many single 40-something professional women I know can't find a man to marry--there are so many more educated, employed women than men. Worse, the few men with professional jobs are so in demand that they can choose to play the field for many years rather than settle with one woman.
I am a divorce lawyer, and don't necessarily recommend getting married. The divorce and custody laws are in many cases not fair. Anyone who gets married is risking their premarital, separate assets. In some states, alimony is completely out of control. Some states will award lifetime alimony. The Pennsylvania courts recently told one father that he couldn't drive his children even though he had a perfect driving record. In another case, the Pennsylvania courts awarded child support to the mother, even though the father had custody of the child. I've seen this happen twice.
In place of surveys, I'll tell you why many guys my age don't want to marry. Money (parting with their own) and the availability of sex without marriage, a alleged benefit of the feminist movement. I've had two friends end relationships with women who in their words, simply had too many sexual partners previous to the relationship. Their rationale, they didn't want a potential wife of theirs to have had so much sex. Another friend who is very successful financially, yet I admit not without issues of his own related to that, ended a relationship with a woman because she didn't want to work. He works everyday and said he found it an unattractive quality to have a wife who simply lives off of his income. Friends who have married did so because that's what the women in their life wanted. Marriage can be wonderful, but it was designed to civilize society and control behavior. Hollywood turned it into romance. Procreation and love are two different things that society is bent on confusing. More young people are seeing it for what it is, and with a divorce rate at over 50%, I can't say I blame my male friends for their concerns. Who wants to give up half simply because one said "I do". We would be delusional to say the other 50% is living blissfully. Another married friend and father of two is happy to be a dad, but isn't in love with being a husband. This is the secret world of how men see marriage, intimacy, and fatherhood and it's not completely invalid.
Marriage is a legal contract enforced unevenly and unfairly by each state based upon no agreed upon parameters and at the whim of Judges whose opinion can not generally be appealed other than on procedural grounds. Getting Married gives up your rights to your assets, future earnings, and children to the State upon divorce which is a large portion of marriages. It is still an economic arrangement as is clear when the defacto marriage contract is being enforced. Love does not require being married. It is time the "marriage contract" be more explicit and known at the time of marriage - I suspect the marriage rate would decline even more.
 
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