{"id":121650,"date":"2023-06-28T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121650"},"modified":"2023-06-28T17:27:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T21:27:02","slug":"prc-a-record-high-share-of-40-year-olds-in-the-u-s-have-never-been-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121650","title":{"rendered":"(PRC) A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of 2021, 25% of 40-year-olds in the United States had never been married. This was a significant increase from 20% in 2010, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data.<\/p>\n<p>Marriage has long been a central institution in the lives of Americans. In 1980, just 6% of 40-year-olds had never been married. But people born from the 1960s onward have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/users.pop.umn.edu\/~ruggles\/Articles\/marriage.pdf\">increasingly delaying marriage<\/a>, and a growing share are forgoing it altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 data marks a new milestone in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2019\/11\/06\/the-landscape-of-marriage-and-cohabitation-in-the-u-s\/\">that decadeslong trend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While many unmarried 40-year-olds are living with a romantic partner, most are not. In 2022, 22% of never-married adults ages 40 to 44 were cohabiting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2023\/06\/28\/a-record-high-share-of-40-year-olds-in-the-us-have-never-been-married\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Incredibly bad news from Pew today: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Poor, working-class, and black Americans hit hardest.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EYhQGPkqX2\">https:\/\/t.co\/EYhQGPkqX2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/r_fry1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@r_fry1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pewresearch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pewresearch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yRJudXb9Ti\">pic.twitter.com\/yRJudXb9Ti<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradWilcoxIFS\/status\/1674074426302668803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of 2021, 25% of 40-year-olds in the United States had never been married. This was a significant increase from 20% in 2010, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data. Marriage has long been a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121650\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,209,98,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-americau-s-a","category-marriage-family","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121654,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121650\/revisions\/121654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}