Posted on 11/16/2019 4:29:20 PM PST by DoodleBob
The share of adults who have lived with a romantic partner is now higher than the share who have ever been married; married adults are more satisfied with their relationships, more trusting of their partners.
As more U.S. adults are delaying marriage – or forgoing it altogether – the share who have ever lived with an unmarried partner has been on the rise. Amid these changes, most Americans find cohabitation acceptable, even for couples who don’t plan to get married, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Even so, a narrow majority says society is better off if couples in long-term relationships eventually get married.
The survey also examines how adults who are married and those who are living with an unmarried partner are experiencing their relationships. It finds that married adults are more satisfied with their relationship and more trusting of their partners than those who are cohabiting.
The share of U.S. adults who are currently married has declined modestly in recent decades, from 58% in 1995 to 53% today. Over the same period, the share of adults who are living with an unmarried partner has risen from 3% to 7%. While the share who are currently cohabiting remains far smaller than the share who are married, the share of adults ages 18 to 44 who have ever lived with an unmarried partner (59%) has surpassed the share who has ever been married (50%), according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG).
Young adults are particularly accepting of cohabitation – 78% of those ages 18 to 29 say it’s acceptable for an unmarried couple to live together, even if they don’t plan to get married – but majorities across age groups share this view.
(Excerpt) Read more at pewsocialtrends.org ...
Interesting that blacks seem to understand the value of marriage more than whites...possibly because many (if not most) of them are on the receiving end of single-parent households.
Interesting that marriage is no longer really valued by critical masses of Americans.
Many of us can recall a time when it was scandalous if couples lived together outside marriage. Many of us can remember a time when it was scandalous to be pregnant without a husband.
There are huge social problems which have resulted from these new attitudes, such as children not having fathers in the home, and the related “feminization” of poverty we hear about.
Yet if anyone talks about such issues, he will be crucified. Remember the reaction to Dan Quayle bringing up these issues?
“but many Repubs are ok with it:”
No problem here and I’m sure Freepers did the same thing. Why is there a stigma called “living in sin”? Are they living as fags?
“The share of adults who have lived with a romantic partner is now higher than the share who have ever been married;”
I can’t believe women buy into this. In a noncommittal relationship, they always seem to get the bad end of the deal if it fails, e.g. one maybe two kiddos to take care of.
the govt will be father to their kids....
Epicurean neo pagan hedonism leads to decadence and cultural dissolution. A rational, observant person need not consult the conclusions of contemporary social scientists but need only to read history to understand what is happening in America. Put another way the Democratic Party does not exist in a cultural or social vacuum. Sadly for America a country with a majority of Democrats, wherever and whenever they came to dominate, could never survive as a republic.
Dan Quayle should have been regarded as a prophet. Murphy Brown presented a living arrangement that was feasible for Murphy Brown since the character, a top flight news anchor, could presumably afford a nanny. The lifestyle (single mom) is generally NOT feasible for most other people, and should not be glorified.
Why is it that heterosexuals do not want to get married but homosexuals do want to get married?
Do people who go to Christian services ever hear about sexual sin anymore from the pulpit?
I haven’t checked recently, but, last I checked, most homosexuals in relationships were not married.
They made this big push to force homosexual marriage on us, but then, having done so, most homosexuals don’t really want to be married. Of course high profile homosexual marriages such as Pete Buttigig are celebrated in the media. But the homosexual community members are not getting legally married in big numbers.
exactly
The Commandment "Thy shall not commit adultery" is generally considered to include fornication outside of marriage. Marriage (back in the Biblical day) was the union of a man and woman. Therefore, assuming a man and woman shacking up nowadays aren't living as brother and sister, they are violating a Commandment and thus are in a state of sin.
Similarly, insofar as same-sex couples can't be married (in a Biblical sense), if they fornicate then they too have broken that Commandment and are in a state of sin as are their heterosexual brethren.
Now in the Biblical sense, same-sex relations are sinful in and of themselves. This means the same-sex couple having sex have received two one-way tickets to hell while the heterosexual unmarried couple having sex have "only" one one-way ticket to hell.
I would say two tickets are worse than one ticket...but it almost doesn't matter: from a theological perspective, they're all going to hell unless they repent.
If people want to be "woke" and say it's ok to have sex outside of marriage, live together, etc, that is their freewill. But their choices and rationalizations don't change Biblical rules.
Living together is playing house. A popular myth is it’s better to live together first. Wrong, marriages after shacking up fail at a higher rate.
since its for my health, I will ask my doctor for a prescription for a really hot sex partner
and send the bill to medicare!
please over 85% of blacks born dont have a dad in the house.
To a certain extent, sexual sin has essentially become the third-rail of religion.
The Bible condemns any kind of sexual activity outside of the marriage (man and woman) bond. God designed it this way and he, as our creator, certainly knows what is best.
I am not surprised people are confused by this, because people are afraid to say it out loud. Even preachers avoid the subject.
After all, we sure don't want to offend anybody!
For the health of your soul, that prescription may be arsenic!
Because “living in sin” is what my parents’, maybe more my grandparents, called living together before marriage. Might be more of a church term.
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