Posted on 07/23/2014 11:48:39 AM PDT by Faith Presses On
Neither is hard work, personal hygiene or flossing, from what I’ve seen.
Unless it is same sex marriage.
Huh?
So 82% of Gen-X women were not married by 40?
I find that hard to believe
I guess it's a typo
crap you beat me to that comment!
Couldn’t resist.
Interesting. I think that, for various reasons, many young people don’t see any reason to get married.
I’m not going to blame the kids for this one — older generations set the stage for the destruction of marriage as an institution. If we want to know why an 18 year old doesn’t think he or she needs to get married, us older Americans need to look in the mirror.
Exactly!
“While only about 18 percent of Gen X women were married by 40”
From the same article:
“about 82 percent of Gen X women and 76.6 percent of Gen X men were married by 40.”
I think the author is confused in his use of statistics.
Just an observation: As the birthrate for caucasians declines the birthrates for Hispanics, Muslims etc. is remaining the same or increasing. In about two generations we will birth control ourselves into minority status. I fortunately will have passed on.
I found the wording confusing as well. I think the writer wanted to prove a certain point, thus swept a couple of unrelated ‘facts’ into one pile of statements.
The communist agenda playing out before our very eyes.
How could this possibly be true? That's a generational wipeout--or a complete transition to bastardry as the preferred mode of propagation.
Seriously. Why should they buy the cow when the get the milk for free?
I don’t agree with it. But that’s the way it is.
Exact same thing going on in Europe for decades.
It is common in that continent for grandparents to outnumber their grandchildren these days.
Or just couldn’t tie the “not” in the first sentence.
As a Gen Xer, I can tell you that there are other big reasons, too.
Many kids my age were latchkeys that were left to fend for themselves, and whose parents were either long-divorced, or MINO (married in name only). A lot of us lived in such screwed-up homes, that it was hard to justify the idea of putting another generation of children through that.
On top of that, there is also the factor of a ruined economy, and no more job (let alone ‘career’) security. Hence, for a lot of the young men especially, of my generational cohort, marrigeable women don’t exactly see us as a good prospect.
Don’t disagree about your analysis of causes. My boys in their mid-20’s probably feel much like you do about the institution of marriage, despite their great girlfriends. And, we had a pretty good family life—but they have friends who don’t, and they’ve observed some brutal divorces among my less fortunate friends.
I just find the stated number of 18% to be astoundingly, almost impossibly low.
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