Why are so many Americans waiting so long to get married?
One-third of young adults will likely never marry, according to recent research. Lyman Stone, a research fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, analyzed the data and came to some important conclusions.
The Knot, a wedding website, ran a study finding that the average age of men and women getting married is now 32 and 30 respectively. The Pew Research Center found that 25 percent of adults over the age of 40 have never been married.
In contrast, in 1967, Stone writes, about 85% of 25-year-old women were married, as were 75% of 25-year-old men. Those rates have dramatically dropped to just 20% of 25-year-old women and 23% of 25-year-old men.
Young adults are not just delaying marriage–they are avoiding it all together.
Why is this so? Katy Faust, president and founder of Them Before Us, writes in a
