#村长听写# July 31 2023 [第4297次]
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July 30 2023
No one knows exactly when the first marriage took place. People have been getting married for thousands of years. It’s an ancient institution. But for some people, it is perhaps a bit too ancient. 89% of the world’s population now live in countries with falling marriage rates. This is especially pronounced in the richest countries. Among the 38 OECD nations, most recorded between 7 and 10 marriages per 1,000 people in 1970. By 1995, this fell to around 5 to 7 marriages. And it continues to plummet today. So, why is this happening, and will it spell the end of marriage as we know it? A stable marriage has often been associated with financial stability. Married households in the U.S. hold significantly higher wealth than cohabiting couples or singles. But despite this, the marriage rate in the US has dropped by nearly 60% since the 1970s. And the median age for first-time marriages has increased for both women and men.
For a variety of reasons, I think, upper- middle-class Americans are just much more likely to be kind of intentional about sequencing their lives in terms of education first, work second, and marriage third, and the baby carriage after all of that. And so that they're just in a much better spot, both financially and relationship-wise when they go ahead and have kids.
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