Millennial marriage rates declining

Millennials are less likely to marry by age 40 than any previous generation, the Urban Institute concluded in an assessment of data from the American Community Survey.

"The findings do not represent trivial facts, but rather a massive moral reorientation of our culture," Heath Lambert, assistant professor of biblical counseling at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., said. "Couples that delay marriage will not also delay intimate relationships and sexual gratification. That means that this study portends increased rates of sex outside marriage, cohabitation, illegitimacy and pornography usage."

The marriage rate has decreased from 91 percent of women age 40 being married in 1990 to a current 69.3 percent, according to the report. The rate for men is approximately 4 percent lower. Read more

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