{"id":55310,"date":"2016-08-05T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dm_fewer_than_half_of_adults_are_now_married_figure_at_lowest_level_since_r\/"},"modified":"2016-08-05T01:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T01:00:25","slug":"dm_fewer_than_half_of_adults_are_now_married_figure_at_lowest_level_since_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55310","title":{"rendered":"(DM) Fewer Than Half of Adults Are Now Married: Figure At Lowest Level Since Records Began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Married couples now make up fewer than half the population, according to an official report on family living yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In a turning point in the fall of the traditional family, it said that only 48.1 per cent of people aged over 16 were married and living as a couple last year, and that many of those who would once have been married now live together as cohabitees.<\/p>\n<p>The estimates that mean married couples are now a minority also showed that nearly one in 10 people who have shunned marriage now live together as cohabitees.<\/p>\n<p>They also found that the &#8216;boomerang generation&#8217; of young people who live with their parents because they cannot afford their own home has contributed to a steady rise in numbers who do not live in a partnership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3689405\/Fewer-half-adults-married-new-study-finds.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the long list of should-have-already-been-posted material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Married couples now make up fewer than half the population, according to an official report on family living yesterday. In a turning point in the fall of the traditional family, it said that only 48.1 per cent of people aged<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55310\">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":[39,50,199,98,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-marriage-family","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55310","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=55310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}