{"id":54570,"date":"2016-05-31T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kimt_special_report_marriage_and_millennials\/"},"modified":"2016-05-31T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:00:44","slug":"kimt_special_report_marriage_and_millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54570","title":{"rendered":"(KIMT) Special Report: Marriage and millennials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millennials are waiting longer to get married than previous generations. According to a 2013 study by the Pew Research Center, only 26 percent of millennials are getting hitched between the ages of 18 and 32. That\u2019s compared to 36 percent of Generation X, 48 percent of baby boomers and 65 percent of the Silent Generation.<\/p>\n<p>One of main reasons people say they\u2019re waiting: Money. Specifically, paying off student loans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are facing dual student loan issues, where maybe their parents only had one set of student loans to deal with. I also think that they\u2019re more expensive,\u201d\u009d said Angie Eggum, a financial advisor at Edward Jones Investments.<\/p>\n<p>Eggum said there are some simple steps people can take to make sure they\u2019re financially ready to say \u201cI Do.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kimt.com\/2016\/05\/12\/special-report-marriage-and-millennials\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millennials are waiting longer to get married than previous generations. According to a 2013 study by the Pew Research Center, only 26 percent of millennials are getting hitched between the ages of 18 and 32. That\u2019s compared to 36 percent<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54570\">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":[39,50,209,175,168,98,177,108,109,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sociology","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54570","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=54570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}