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Marriage Rates Are Near Their Lowest Levels In History — Here’s Why

Businessinsider.com 1/5/2015

“… U.S. marriage rates have reached historic lows in recent years. Since 1970 — when about 74 marriages happened annually for every 1,000 unmarried women — the marriage rate declined by nearly 60%, dropping to 31 marriages per 1,000 unmarried women by 2012, the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University found. So what’s keeping people from tying the knot?

Read the entire article: http://www.businessinsider.com/causes-of-low-marriage-rates-2014-5