Why 25% of Millennials Will Never Get Married

TIME ^ | 09/24/2014 | Belinda Luscombe

[SeekAndFind]

A new report from Pew Research predicts that more folks under 35 will be single forever. Here's why

The number of Americans who have always been single and will never marry is at a historic high, says a new Pew Research report, partly because they don’t have jobs and partly because marriage is becoming less highly-regarded.

Most people think it’s important for couples who intend to stay together to be married, but the number of single Americans who want to get married has dropped significantly even in the last four years.

The report, based on census data and Pew’s surveys, is the latest in a series of indicators that marriage’s stock is on a sharp downward trajectory. Fewer young people are getting married and many are getting married later. About 20% of Americans older than 25 had always been single in 2012, up from 9% in 1960. In the black community, the numbers are even starker: 36% of black Americans older than 25 have never been married, a fourfold increase from 50 years ago.

[Age of Reason]

Some of these kids saw the destruction caused by divorce and fear that more than they desire to be married.

The "some" of those kids are the male kids.

Everything about the law and modern culture puts the blame on men first when something goes wrong.

[JimRed]

Why buy the cow when milk’s $4.50 a half gallon?

[bmwcyle]

BINGO! Polls are worthless.

[hinckley buzzard]

I quite agree. Having a family and raising children is part of the universal human experience, and the highest calling. In comparison, a career is in the end just waiting around; self-centered pursuits like travel, an excess of toys, and other self-gratifications just don't measure up.

[CodeToad]

Excellent point. I have met 20-sometings that said and did that very thing. “We can’t afford to be married.”