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You see what happens when you don't protect "marriage."
It’s Official: To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered
By SAM ROBERTS
Published: October 15, 2006
NY TimesMarried couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of American households, have finally slipped into a minority, according to an analysis of new census figures by The New York Times.
The American Community Survey, released recently by the Census Bureau, found that 49.7 percent, or 55.2 million, of the nation’s 111.1 million households in 2005 were made up of married couples — with and without children — just shy of a majority and down from more than 52 percent five years earlier.
The numbers by no means suggest marriage is dead or necessarily that a tipping point has been reached. The total number of married couples is higher than ever, and most Americans eventually marry. But marriage has been facing more compe ion. A growing number of adults are spending more of their lives single or living unmarried with partners, and the potential social and economic implications are profound.
“It just changes the social weight of marriage in the economy, in the work force, in sales of homes and rentals, and who manufacturers advertise to,” said Stephanie Coontz, director of public education for the Council on Contemporary Families, a nonprofit research group. “It certainly challenges the way we set up our work policies.”
While the number of single young adults and elderly widows are both growing, Professor Coontz said, “we have an anachronistic view as to what extent you can use marriage to organize the distribution and redistribution of benefits.”
More than 14 million of them were headed by single women, another five million by single men, while 36.7 million belonged to a category described as "nonfamily households," a term that experts said referred primarily to gay or heterosexual couples cohabiting out of formal wedlock.
In addition, there were more than 30 million unmarried men and women living alone, who are not categorized as families, the Census Bureau reported.
By comparison, the number of traditional households with married couples at their core stood at slightly more than 55.2 million, or 49.8 percent of the total.
You see what happens when you don't protect "marriage."
So much for traditional 'family values'. Maybe this is what O'Leilly is fighting in his so-called 'culture war'.
Marriage isn't a sacred ins ution, it's a business arrangement. People these days just want to limit their liability.
Marriage rocks baby!!! Especially amongst us immoral liberals
36.7 million non-family households, made up of cohabiting gays? Really?
Political agenda, here.
As we all know, today the United States crossed the 300 million mark in population, with a baby born every seven seconds.
Doesn't happen if TWENTY FIVE PERCENT of our population is gay. (36.7 * 2 = 73.4 = roughly 25% of 300)
Speak for yourself. No way I would stay married, a give up THIS much sex, for a business arrangement.
"36.7 million non-family households, made up of cohabiting gays? Really?"
it says: "primarily to gay or heterosexual couples cohabiting"
Thanks, speed reading can get you caught, you know?
heterosexual meaning straight.
Yeah, thanks, I got it in the previous post; don't rub it in.
Talk to anyone who's ever been divorced, and they'll explain the "business" part of it to you. Marriage is a great deal as long as you STAY married, and that's about a 50/50 proposition in this country these days.
less marriage cuz mens are tired of getting raped in divorce court. men can gain nothing by being married and more like 80 percent eventually get divorced
The solution is easy --
polygamy
Rent women, do not buy, just like cars
That's the easy solution for most men, but for most women, ......
not so easy.
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