Originally Posted by
Ultralight
Mine was the first divorce in my family -- uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. included. My parents are still together.
I was just speaking in general. My mother divorced three times and I'm on year 40 of my 1st marriage. But I still believe that some people a) don't see as much value in marriage because of the failure rate and b) they don't "need" to get married, especially if they don't want children. But even then, some women would rather have just a child than a child+husband.
Check out this survey: https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources...-fp-15-12.html
"Two in five men and women indicate that marriage has not worked out for most people they know."
"Half of singles who have ever cohabited express pessimism toward marriage"
And this from Gallup:
Most millennials have not yet married, and they are waiting longer to marry. For 34-year-olds, just over half (56%) are married, and of these, 83% have children. But a substantial number (46%) of those who have never been married and are well into their 30s have children. This may represent a seismic shift in the connection between marriage and child rearing because as recently as 2000, the comparable percentage of single/never married 30- to 34-year-olds with children was just 30%.