A quarter of 40-year-olds in the United States have never been married, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Research Center.
As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, this marks the highest figure since the data first started being published back in 1900, and a major leap from the 6 percent low of 1980.
You will find more infographics at Statista
But interestingly, it isn’t just a case of more people cohabiting without getting married: Analysts found that many of the adults surveyed in 2021 were living alone, with just 22 percent of those who had never married between the ages of 40-44 reporting that they were living with a partner.
Looking at a breakdown of the 2021 data by different demographic groups, men were more likely to be unmarried by 40 than women, at 28 percent and 22 percent, respectively.
A slightly higher share of Black U.S. adults (46 percent) reported not having married by that age versus Hispanic (27 percent), white (20 percent) or Asian (17 percent) adults.
In terms of education, 40-year-olds who didn’t finish a four-year college degree were more likely to have never married than those who completed at least a bachelor’s degree.
The general increase of people who are still single by 40 suggests that there has been a shift in sentiments on the importance of marriage.
The trend is likely due to a wide variety and combination of factors, whether that’s a loosening of stigma around being single, or as Belinda Luscombe of Time Magazine explains, due to economic reasons, such as the fact that since women have “gained economic power, they needed to rely less on men to provide”, or conversely, because many men say they feel they need a level of financial stability to be ready for marriage.
Pew Research Center analysts also highlight how people aged over 40 of course do often get married too, with around one in four 40 year olds who had not married in 2001 having done so by age 60.
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A slightly higher share of Black U.S. adults (46 percent) reported not having married by that age
Added for context: It should be acknowledged that around 90% of black US males will ran away when asked anything about “kids”.
Jes sain
Anal mouse you are retarded!
Big government has replaced black fathers. Black mothers have driven black fathers out of the family.
Hence, the running away at being asked about marital status.
I thought you said “90% of black US males will ran away when asked anything about “kids”.
Ten percent are like this:
I was married as a covenant before God.
The state can can go fuck itself.
With domestic relations courts clearly and heavily biased against men, especially if they’re white, why would any man want to get married?
When it comes to division of assets and property,what hers is hers, what theirs is hers and what’s his is hers.
In the name of equality between the sexes (all two of ’em), they do split the house evenly in divorce court: he keeps the outside half.
She gets the half that burned to the ground.
So your kids are now homeless, to spite their mother?
Don’t even message me unless you’re 6’3 , make 200 K a year , and I want a big house with a pool !
WAAAaaaaaaaa there’s no good men out there !
Fuck these gold digging cunts.
Someone does
Yup.
I ‘work’ for a corporation and personally own no assets.
But I get killer company perks.
I fly the company plane, I run the company sponsored race team.
I pilot the company boat.
I’m not tall, I’m not handsome.
But I’ve been told I’ve got a rockin’ bod.
So I’m the guy to play with until they find Mr. Right…
Works just fine for me.
And a staff in a pear tree to do everything.
Don’t even text me if you weigh over 1120lbs.
Period.
If you are over that?
You are two heavy, two tall, or both.
Don’t even text me if you weigh over 120lbs.
Period.
If you are over that?
You are two heavy, two tall, or both.
Fixed.
People aren’t getting married. I believe it’s a power play. My “wife” and I have been together for almost 21 years now. If we had gotten married, I guarantee we would have gotten divorced. I don’t play any shit when it comes to being held down. I stayed because I WANTED to stay, not because of a piece of paper.
The marriage “license” is literally inserting the government into your marriage.
You then need to pay them for permission to walk away from a psychotic bitcb.
Plethora of then around.
“The fact that the state has intruded itself as a third party in every marriage does not add to the sanctity of the marriage. It is just a state license, like a license to be a plumber. As far as the state is concerned, a marriage license is a license for a civil union, since the state doesn’t care whether a preacher or a notary public marries you.” READ REST:
It’s hilarious.
If you are a believer in a religion, get married in your religion.
You don’t need permission from the manor lord. *
*dot gov
Not true. Just living together for a year qualifies her for divorce-rape cash and prizes.
In many states you’re considered married when it comes to your assets.
There’s only so much I can do, correct?
Prenup
They’ve been disregarded and overruled in courts.
As is the constitution… so?
So, you’ve bolstered my point, you perennial dick.
So you ignore all laws, as you might not have justice served to you, numbnut?
But actually even doing nothing might get you drawn into some unjust judicial procedure, started by someone else.
The only way out is not just to never-marry, but kill yourself ASAP!
I stayed because I WANTED to stay, not because of a piece of paper.
Promises are never made to other people.
The only promises we keep are the ones we make to ourselves…
It’s half chemical castration and half the antimale indoctrination. Lots of other minor factors.
Economics, too. Abolish the Fed, close the border, relegalize entrepreneurship, deregulate, de-tax, bring back apprenticeship, end .gov subsidy of higher ed for useless cultural Marxism degrees, abolish minimum wage. Drill for oil and build refineries, fix infrastructure. Abolish welfare (for corporations, too, and big ag, etc.).
You got my vote.
Thanks, but I’m an anti-statist, who’s not running for office.
However, we’re likely going to continue having a .gov, so, at least let’s reduce it to just a Coast Guard, and redeploy the marines, who are uselessly occupying Okinawa 3/4 of a century after WWII, to the Tex-Mex border, then shutter the Federal Reserve and end foreign aid.
None of our .mil boats should be over 200 miles from our coasts – according to this marine:
https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
Let’s hold a vote to see how many people here oppose or support democracy.
UV=support democracy
DV=oppose democracy
.
Basically all the good women are taken by the age of 21.
The ones still unmarried after that are definitely the leftovers. The dating pool after 30 is a dumpster dive. I’m 32 and won’t even waste my time looking for a “serious” relationship with a woman my age. I’m either looking for an older sugar momma, or something half my age that has potential for de-programming. The latter is mostly a lost cause in the case of American women with 12 years of public schooling.
Nevertheless, I haven’t given up yet. Lots of pretty girls around that are at least mildly interested. Broke up with my girl back in July, but it’s not like it was serious anyway. I’m consistently amazed at the shockingly beautiful girls that are interested in me now that I’m a bit older. Never thought that would happen to me.
Don’t go rushing into marriage, Off.
If it’s right, marriage isn’t even necessary.
There’s nobody either of you would rather be with.
If it’s wrong, and you didn’t get married, when it all turns to shit say “fuck it” and walk away.
In the last day or two, I’ve suddenly started noticing all the white men in their 50’s, 60’s and 70+ who are alone. In church. Walking around the lakes, etc. They’ve probably always been there, but I hadn’t noticed. They’re heterosexual from the look of them and don’t look like ogres or anything. My hunch is that their wives left them to become fulfilled or go lesbo or something. Not sure what this says about the article’s topic. Maybe nothing. Just a data point.
Bill: “How did your society unravel?”
Ted: “Little by little at first; then, all at once.”
~ Ernest Hemingway, “The Honeymoon Also Sets”
Trump is on TV at this moment announcing that most of the mental patients from other countries are being dumped in usa.
they are currently contemplating if this is what’s left why the struggle…2 failed relationships that spanned and destroyed 2 decades of progress…in debt to the company store… tied to a mortgage in a dying town…
i got noticed by a lady at the store that needed help with the last sticks of butter way up in the back…felt good.
Their wives are carefully monitoring the bonbons in front of the TV while watching Sister Wives and My Big Fat Flabulous Lie on tivo…. …while mainlining cookie dough ice cream and bitching about how “no man can satisfy me” to the cats.
Watch the vids on this channel. You’d have to be mad to get married today.
A record number are probably divorced, also – many, maybe more than once.
I read somewhere, statistically speaking, 100% of divorces began with marriage.
I know 2 people on their 3rd marriage. I know 1 person working on getting married a 4th time. I know 3 on their 2nd marriage and I’d bet I know at least 45 people who are divorced and haven’t remarried.
My sibling is engaged to someone who has been divorced 3 times. Sibling and sibling’s late spouse used to make fun of late spouse’s dad who was divorced 3 times. Got a dirty look when I asked why the latter was makefunable and the former is ok.
It’s considered impolite to announce you noticed hypocrisy in real time.
[Oh nubbins, I screwed up my comment]
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Of course.
God has told us how to live and be happy. When people ignore God and turn away from Him, they like to blame everything but that for all the worlds problems.
That’s it.
Don’t stick it in crazy !
It’s OK to stick in crazy but DO NOT stick aroumd.
They’re all crazy.
I was operating from false paradigms for much of life.
Crazy.
I kept trying to make the lies fit.
I’m wondering if all these “homeless” people are really ‘X’ husbands whose former wife cleaned them out. By the time these ‘X’ husbands get done paying for court ordered child support, alimony, hand over all his assets to her, the only place he can afford to live is in a tent or behind a dumpster on a street corner somewhere. At the same time, his former wife uses all that income to support her unemployed live-in (stud service) boyfriend.
I see another area of government largess that needs cutting. There is no reason for them to have this information when they can’t even reign in government corruption or keep tabs on how many Americans are shot by police and federal agents every year!!!
My friend’s mother 45 years ago was on her third marriage . She landed the golden goose a Harvard Business grad making 125 k a year and massive expense account . He was a Total cuck . She managed a degree from Dowling College . And due to her husband Harry ,went to Haaavaad. Her third son also went to Haaavaad. Her youngest son they were able to get into Boston college. This cunt had the nerve to tell my boss in the ,1980s be careful That I Was an opportunist. That was rich coming from her lol. That evil cunt is dead up the flue of a retort with no fanfare or memorial.
Two possibilities:
A.) We’re getting smarter
B.) The choices are becoming ever more odious.
Too bad your parents weren’t smart enough!
I now see American liberal women like cows at a livestock auction that don’t get any bids from breeders (Producers, Ranchers) and so go on to slaughter. If a Traditional Latin or Asian cow comes up though, she starts a bidding war. The Feminizes made themselves the new Third Rail to Companies and men in America; they had every warning from us that Cultural Communism was the Kiss of Death to good men; but sluts embraced it mentally, socially, physically, etc. It’s like Transex; once a woman goes there, bad freaky things will stay with her for life; she can’t be reborn and come back a wholesome normal woman. That’s what should be taught in schools to young girls.