Toothpicvic
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The New York Times, which based its report on an analysis of census results, said 51 percent of women in 2005 reported living without a spouse, up from 35 percent in 1950 and 49 percent in 2000.
Those statistics don't have anything to do with women living without a spouse. They have to do with whether or not the women have a legal marriage license. So it doesn't really mean anything.
Married couples are the majority in the US. The statistic are referring to the number of couples with legal marriage licenses. Marriage has been around for hundreds of years, even before legal marriage licenses were created."Coupled with the fact that in 2005 married couples became a minority of all American households for the first time, the trend could ultimately shape social and workplace policies, including the ways government and employers distribute benefits," the newspaper said.
It said that several factors are behind the shift including women marrying at a later age and living with partners for more often and for longer periods. Women are also living longer as widows and once divorced, often opt to stay single, the report said.
Well yeah, in the early 1900s, a woman could be married at 10 years old to a much older man (and forced marriages were common). So if that's the "traditional family structure" that you mean, then I'm glad we've long done away with that type of degeneracy.
The majority of US women are living with a spouse. The article only refers to legally recognized couples.
We aren't. Both those statistics have significantly improved on the whole.What is this invisible factor that is leading us down a path of single people, single mothers (voluntary ones at least), dead-beat fathers, etc.? What is it? Why are we seeing less married people and broken or disjointed families more and more?
I guess that means you enjoyed it than. lol when you're ready to brush up on history, please get back to me. I yawned after reading the first sentence because this thread was so ignorant of reality.Yes, this is an extension of the last thread, so for all of you that can't fathom reality to save your life, this should be fun.
Society doesn't hate familes. "Family values" orgs just hate real families and society itself.
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