As manufacturing jobs are lost there is a loss in fertility and marriages.
NEW YORK (CNN) — If it seems like the number of complaints from your female friends about not being able to find a man is growing, we may finally know why.
Somewhere between 1979 and 2008, Americans decided it was much less worth it to get hitched: the share of 25 to 39-year-old women who were currently married fell 10 percent among those with college degrees, 15 percent for those with some college, and a full 20 percent for women with a high school education or less.
This great American marriage decline — a drop from 72 percent of U.S. adults being wed in 1960 to half in 2014 — is usually chalked up to gains in women's rights, the normalization of divorce, and the like.
But it also has a lot to do with men. Namely, economic forces are making them less appealing partners, and it ties into everything from China to opioids.