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(EMAILWIRE.COM, August 07, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- According to a new Family Profile from the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green University, the U.S. marriage rate is 31.1, the lowest itÂ’s been in over 100 years. This means that roughly 31 marriages equal about 1,000 married women. In 1920 however, the marriage rate was 92.3.
Dr. Susan Brown, co-director of the NCFMR, says marriage rates have been declining steadily since the 1970s, to almost 60 percent. She says there are several reasons why the marriage rat is so low, but probably the most significant factor is that couples are choosing to cohabitate together, but still remain unmarried.
The average age at first marriage is also the highest itÂ’s been in more than a century, at nearly 27 years old for a woman and 31 years of age for a man. Dr. Wendy Manning, a nother co-director of the Center says that this age has also been increasing at a steady pace for 30 years or so.
In 1920, less than 1 percent of women were divorced or separated. Today, that number is 15 percent. Brown says that the divorce rates are high in the U.S., but individuals today are less likely to remarry than they were in the past.
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