{"id":38183,"date":"2013-05-07T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_op-ed_andrew_cherlin\/"},"modified":"2013-05-07T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T16:00:08","slug":"ny_times_op-ed_andrew_cherlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38183","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times Op-Ed) Andrew Cherlin&#8211;In the Season of Marriage, a Question. Why Bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its surprising how many people still marry. As everyone knows, it\u2019s a risky proposition; the divorce rate, though down from its peak of one in two marriages in the early 1980s, remains substantial. Besides, you can have a perfectly respectable life these days without marrying.<\/p>\n<p>When the Pew Research Center asked a sample of Americans in 2010 what they thought about the \u201cgrowing variety in the types of family arrangements that people live in,\u201d\u009d 34 percent responded that it was a good thing, and 32 percent said it made no difference. Having a child outside of marriage has also become common. According to a report by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, 47 percent of American women who give birth in their 20s are unmarried at the time.<\/p>\n<p>And still, demographers project that at least 80 percent of Americans will marry at some point in their lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/28\/opinion\/sunday\/why-do-people-still-bother-to-marry.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its surprising how many people still marry. As everyone knows, it\u2019s a risky proposition; the divorce rate, though down from its peak of one in two marriages in the early 1980s, remains substantial. Besides, you can have a perfectly respectable<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38183\">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":[39,40,50,209,175,101,149,168,98,136,129,109,596,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-children","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-middle-age","category-psychology","category-sociology","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183","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=38183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}