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A Record Number Of Americans Are Living Alone

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The number of Americans living with a spouse or partner has fallen notably in the last decade, driven in part by decisions to delay marriage in the wake of a recession that hit new entrants into the workforce especially hard.

Forty-two percent of Americans live without a spouse or partner, up from 39 percent in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center’s analysis of U.S. Census Bureau figures. For those under the age of 35 years old, 61 percent live without a spouse or partner, up 5 percentage points from a decade ago.

The higher number of spouseless households comes as the marriage rate declines precipitously. Just half of American adults are married, down from 72 percent in 1960.

The average American woman gets married just after her 27th birthday, while the average man waits until he is 29.5 years old to marry — significantly higher than the median ages half a century ago.

“The median age of first marriage has gone up significantly over the past several decades,” said Kim Parker, who directs research on social trends at the Pew Research Center. “But it’s not all about delayed marriage. The share of Americans who have never married has been rising steadily in recent decades. So, part of it is a move away from marriage.”

Pew researchers said the rise in those households without a partner or spouse is not a sign that more marriages are breaking up; the divorce rate has been stable, or even declining, since the 1980s.

Instead, analysts said, the decline in both marriage and partnerships is likely a result of the declining ability of men to earn a salary large enough to sustain a family.

“All signs point to the growing fragility of the male wage earner,” said Cheryl Russell, a demographer and editorial director at the New Strategist Press. “The demographic segments most likely to be living without a partner are the ones in which men are struggling the most — young adults, the less educated, Hispanics and blacks.”

Marriage rates increase for younger Americans in connection with salaries. Fewer than half of men between the ages of 30 and 34 who earn less than $40,000 a year are married. More than half of those who make more than $40,000 a year are married, including two-thirds of those who make between $75,000 and $100,000 a year.

“The point at which the average young man becomes ‘marriageable’ appears to be earnings of $40,000 a year or more,” Russell said.

The Pew data underscores the economic marriage gap: Adults who do not live with partners are more than twice as likely to live in poverty than those who have partners.

“Our surveys show us that one of the things that’s holding unmarried adults back from getting married is that they feel they’re not financially stable enough,” Parker said.

When household size is taken into account, the median household with partnered adults makes far more, $86,000, than those with unpartnered adults, $61,000.

A little more than a quarter of those living without a partner or spouse live with a parent or a grandparent. More than a third live alone, the Census data show.


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jamesbond wrote:
“The point at which the average young man becomes ‘marriageable’ appears to be earnings of $40,000 a year or more,” Russell said.


I know lots of Filipino guys that don't even have a job. Their wife makes all the money while they just sit at home all day and these men are still considered marriageable. In the Philippines men still have an intrinsic value to society whether there employed or not. This is not the case in western countries where women only take a personal interest in you until after you strike it rich.
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It is probably likely, that just like every other thing that is wrong with our society, this results from the empowerment and exaltation of the female gender.

How's that? Oh, just like the rest of those statistics, about the destroyed or diminished lives of the children of single mother households. Empower the woman to remove the husband at will, and she will exercise that power to usurp his authority, especially if she gets to hurt him and take his money. Or maybe it's that these women simply have no idea how to get along with men in relationships because they've forgotten such things as humility, grace, femininity, mercy, understanding, and submission; but instead they are much closer to being unruly, disobedient and rebellious, if not outright contentious and domineering.

They've essentially destroyed much of the good, non-physical qualities of many women, and what's there instead is spoiled and rotten at its core.

In any case, the children who are raised by single mothers lag behind in almost every measure, compared to those children who have both parents.

Basically I'm saying many of those "unmarriageable" men probably were probably raised by single mothers or disengaged fathers.
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jamesbond wrote: “The point at which the average young man becomes ‘marriageable’ appears to be earnings of $40,000 a year or more...
It seems MGTOW is working out nicely for men.

Why should a young man work day and night only to give away his earnings and not use his money for himself?
He has now the typical MGTOW choice - either work hard and use the money for himself, or work less and the income is still good enough for his basic needs and he can have a rest.

Interesting to notice, it is only about 'average young men'.

How much should a woman earn to become 'marriageable'? Feminism told us we are all equals....
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Everything in western countries caters to single, dysfunctional women with lots of money. Its good for business...

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Therein lies the decline of America. Without the family unit we are screwed as a nation. We will lose our moral compass and our purpose for living.
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