{"id":23019,"date":"2010-11-21T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-survey_four_in_10_americans_say_marriage_is_obsolete\/"},"modified":"2010-11-21T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T02:00:14","slug":"rns-survey_four_in_10_americans_say_marriage_is_obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23019","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;Survey: Four in 10 Americans Say Marriage is Obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Younger people are also hesitant to get married. In 1960, 68 percent of 20-somethings had tied the knot, but now only one in four have.<\/p>\n<p>The economy has some effect on this trend, especially for those in the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder, since many people seek financial stability before getting married. In 2008, more than half of all adults were married, compared to 72 percent in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Washington-based Family Research Council, took issue with more pessimistic interpretations of the survey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA decline in the percentage of adults who are married is largely because people delay marriage, not because young men and women are foregoing marriage completely,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/survey-four-in-10-americans-say-marriage-is-obsolete-cms-17045\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Younger people are also hesitant to get married. In 1960, 68 percent of 20-somethings had tied the knot, but now only one in four have. The economy has some effect on this trend, especially for those in the lower rungs<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23019\">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":[39,50,209,98,129,112,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-sexuality","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23019","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=23019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}