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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @10:14PM
I ran into that. Both people overestimating my capabilities, but moreover a lot of people feeling threatened even as they took advantage of my help to pass classes.
I had maybe 3 people over years of college offer to help me get a job or internship, and of those, 1 came through, one was straight up shady, and the other was unpaid, then turned out they were unqualified for an internship that earned credits. No money, no credits, no thanks.
Result was I got a few shitty jobs by throwing out job applications, and a couple by word of mouth,none of which in turn provided good references for future jobs, before I finally got out of the job market (two separate careers later.)
I had a discussion with someone the other day who is much better off, but a wage slave looking to relocate and they stated flat out the same thing: Around here who you know is more likely to get you a job than what you know, even if what you know is exactly what someone is looking for. Stupid, but dems da breaks.