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You’re not the only one spending fewer summer weekends watching other people get married—but don’t worry, the weddings you’re still invited to might feel a little more special these days.
Fewer Americans are getting married, and the ones who still are have scaled back their weddings. Their nuptials are becoming smaller, though not necessarily cheaper, affairs.
Many couples are waiting longer and longer to schedule their weddings. In 2015, the median first-time American bride was almost 28 years old and the median groom almost 30, according to the most recent data available from the Census Bureau. (Ten years earlier, the typical bride was 25.5, the typical groom 27.)
The U.S. marriage rate—the number of new marriages per 1,000 people—has been falling for decades. It fell especially fast during the recession, in 2008 and 2009, but there’s little evidence that people started getting married again even as the economy recovered. And research firm IbisWorld predicts the marriage rate will keep falling over the next five years.
From a global perspective, that wouldn’t be a surprise. The U.S. marriage rate would need to fall by about a third to reach the marriage rates in other developed countries. The most recent data show a U.S. marriage rate of 6.9, compared with an average rate of 4.6 for countries in the European Union.
Are weaker economics the cause, or has marriage gone out of fashion?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @06:34PM (9 children)
Thanks to the Internet, young men are now able to find out that marriage is a bad deal, from both risk-reward and cost-benefit perspectives.
The female instinctively seeks to curtail the male's sexuality. In exchange, she promises to satisfy those needs herself. This promise however is rapidly forgotten as she buries the male in chores and offspring. Should he start to get wise, she simply clips off half of his assets and rolls the dice again. That is, if she doesn't put him in jail for alleged spousal rape, an accusation for which no proof is necessary, because "believe the victim".
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @07:14PM (7 children)
No wonder she dumped you, bro! You are a businessman, not a lover or husband! Well, I hope you make lots of money, and get to keep it all, Scrooge!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @07:18PM
A husband is just a workhorse to generate money to pay for a lover which is a vibrator.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @08:00PM (5 children)
Protip: Insulting men who don't do what women want does not make you a more attractive woman.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @08:36PM (4 children)
Pro-er tip: Assuming that it is a woman insulting these worthless MRA types does not make you attractive to anyone! It is real men who are insulting your cowardly craven ass of a knave, you self-engrossed man-child psychopath! Real men who may have to just show you what it is like to be a disrespected object of other's depraved desires!!
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Sunday July 30 2017, @09:07PM
*tips trilby*
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @02:06AM (1 child)
Are you by chance a fan of No True Scotsman fallacies? Because unless you're referring to biological sex, there is no concrete definition of what a "real man" is. You might be as stupid as the MRA manbabies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @02:26PM
Generally, when people are talking about "real" men, it comes down to two types: one group talks about men who adhere to a code of honor, and in so doing provide for their families, protect those in need of it (exactly who this extends to tends to vary, as some wouldn't feel it necessary to protect the weak among an out-group, others would), and who speak the inconvenient truth, except perhaps when doing so would endanger those they are sworn to protect (family, country, etc). The other camp seems to be roughly the polar opposite, claiming real manhood is derived from not being beholden to the directives of anyone but oneself, and from taking what one wants from wherever he can get it.
It'd be really handy if people could start specifying which one they mean. It's a shame the word "niding" has fallen out of use, but perhaps knave could suffice as that latter group.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @03:28PM
Us, knaves, are welcoming in the muslims with open arms. They allow child arraignment of girls, unlike english-language-Jesus.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by kaszz on Sunday July 30 2017, @10:28PM
Right on.
If you want sex, there's other ways.
If kids are what is sought, you will loose them by default at the whim of a bad day.
If companionship is sought, there are better ways.
And you can't contract love. It's silly. So the point is a contract to oblige you into wage slavery. The banks and corporations love it!
Marriage is simple a deal that won't make sense in many rational aspects.