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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by shubb on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:37AM (#36151628)
Just want to point out that with population growth, your stats show that over the past 20 years married couples per thousand population has gone from 202/1000 in 2001 to 185/1000 in 2022 which is a 10% decline.
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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by XorNot on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:06AM (#36152103)
Noticed that which is why I looked up the cohabitation data, since I'm not sure how "marriage" is being defined - over that same period cohabitation rates tripled.

I suspect that accounts for a decent chunk of people not getting married, but still being in long-term relationships unless there's some evidence these are substantially different types of relationships (i.e. not intimate).

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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by scarmig on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:55PM (#36157189)
> married couples per thousand population has gone from 202/1000 in 2001 to 185/1000 in 2022 which is a 10% decline.

This probably understates things, if anything; as you get older, you're more likely to get married, and America's population has been aging.

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