Getting to Next - Marriage

This 2007 paper from Yankelovich Think Tank examines the state of marriage in the USA. Married households now compose less than half of U.S.

Getting to Next – Marriage

The latest news on the marriage front is neither for better nor for worse, but household structure is changing to the point that new products and services are needed to address changing life choices. Fewer couples are getting divorced nowadays, but fewer couples are making it to the altar. And the traditional American family—two adults with children under 18 living at home—constitutes less than one-quarter of U.S. households for the first time in American history.

The U.S. Census Bureau announced last fall that married households now compose less than half of U.S. households, even though...

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