I wonder if many put off marriage because divorce scares them. It seems that most people I have known who married ended up divorced.
I must be from another planet. I had a group of friends in High School (25 years ago) and out of the 25 or so of us that hung around together, only ONE is divorced. We've all been married 20 years or longer.
I don't know if it's a Midwest thing, or a generational thing, or a what . . . .
Two main points in my opinion why people are not getting married, you hit the nail on the head below on the first one. The laws gave too much power to women to take half of everything a man owns, the house and the kids, leaving many men destitute and obligated for many years. Not saying that women shouldn't get something but too many women took too much advantage and now successful men cover their ass(ets).
The second point is the morally casual nature of our society of easy sex, and the breakdown of the God given institution of marriage. As one other poster put it, the liberal left has done their damage.
"I wonder if many put off marriage because divorce scares them. It seems that most people I have known who married ended up divorced."
Often quite quickly.