For the 1st time, married couples are a minority in US |
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London, May 30 ANI: A new report from the US Census has suggested that for the first time married couples are now a minority in the country. In the 2010 census, married couples represented 48 percent of all households, which is down from 52 percent from the last census. Experts attributed the change to a fast-growing older population who are more likely to be divorced or widowed, and young people delaying marriage amid fears of not being able to hang on to a job and a shift away from having children at a young age, reports the Daily Mail. Meanwhile, the number of opposite-sex couples living together rather than marrying jumped 13 er cent from 2009 to 7.5million. The median age for first marriages has climbed steadily in the U.S. since the 1960s, when men got married at about 23, and women at 20. Now men are waiting until they are 28 and women until 26. Americans are also living longer, with an average life expectancy of 78, nearly a decade longer than in the 1960s. ANI Posted by aniin on Tuesday May 31 reply Comments |
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