More Say “I Don’t” To Nups: Only Half of Americans Getting Married
By Sarah Matuka and Cathy Burke
We’re just not the marrying kind.
Only half of US adults are taking a walk down the aisle to say “I do” — down from 72 percent in 1960 — and 40 percent think marriage is obsolete, a surprising Pew Research Center and Time Magazine survey showed yesterday.
The dizzying dip in marriage stats is sharpest among 20-somethings: Two years ago, 26 percent of the under-30 crowd were married compared with 68 percent in 1960, according to the survey. A whopping 44 percent of younger adults think marriage is headed for extinction. More
