{"id":1312,"date":"2009-04-14T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T17:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2009-06-26T03:52:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T11:52:37","slug":"why-people-are-getting-married-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/04\/14\/why-people-are-getting-married-later","title":{"rendered":"Why People Are Getting Married Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/14\/marriage-cohabitation-and-kids\/\">The Freako\u00adnom\u00adics blog<\/a> tipped me off to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307266897&amp;view=auqa\">fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading inter\u00adview<\/a> with the author of a recent book on mar\u00adriage in Amer\u00adi\u00adca. Two of the author\u2019s respons\u00ades stood out to me (empha\u00adsis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFifty years ago you had to be mar\u00adried to be a respectable adult in the Unit\u00aded States. Today, mar\u00adriage is optional\u2014you can get most of your emo\u00adtion\u00adal and eco\u00adnom\u00adic needs by liv\u00ading with partner\u2014and sin\u00adgle par\u00adents can also get by. But odd\u00adly enough, mar\u00adriage is, if any\u00adthing, more impor\u00adtant than ever to peo\u00adple as a sym\u00adbol of hav\u00ading made it in life\u2014of hav\u00ading a suc\u00adcess\u00adful per\u00adson\u00adal life. Most young Amer\u00adi\u00adcans still want to get mar\u00adried, but they do it only when all the oth\u00ader steps to adult\u00adhood are in place\u2014when they have com\u00adplet\u00aded their edu\u00adca\u00adtion, when they and their part\u00adners have jobs, when they have saved up enough for a down pay\u00adment on a house, or even have had chil\u00addren togeth\u00ader. <strong>Mar\u00adriage used to be the first step into adult\u00adhood, but now it is the last. It\u2019s the cap\u00adstone of per\u00adson\u00adal life\u2014the final brick put in after all the oth\u00aders are in place.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apostilla.com?bad_day_at_black_rock\">free bad day at black rock<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geektechs.net?pervert\">down\u00adload per\u00advert  free<\/a><\/u>  <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artwithheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/zoft-hoodia-gum.html\">zoft hood\u00adia gum<\/a> <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awf.org\/images\/googleearth\/4\/lamisil-terbinafine-otc-scalp.html\">lamisil scalp terbinafine otc<\/a> <strong style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dopiska.com?repo_the_genetic_opera\">repo the genet\u00adic opera divx<\/a><\/strong> <\/em> <\/div>\n<p>So mar\u00adriage is still impor\u00adtant, but in a dif\u00adfer\u00adent way than in the past. It\u2019s a sym\u00adbol of per\u00adson\u00adal achievement\u2014the ulti\u00admate mer\u00adit badge, the mar\u00adriage badge.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One sta\u00adtis\u00adtic that stunned me: take two chil\u00addren, one grow\u00ading up with mar\u00adried par\u00adents in the Unit\u00aded States, and one grow\u00ading up with unmar\u00adried par\u00adents in Sweden\u2014which child has the high\u00ader like\u00adli\u00adhood of see\u00ading his par\u00adents\u2019 rela\u00adtion\u00adship break up? Answer: the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan kid, because chil\u00addren liv\u00ading with mar\u00adried par\u00adents in the Unit\u00aded States have a high\u00ader prob\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of expe\u00adri\u00adenc\u00ading a break-up than do chil\u00addren liv\u00ading with unmar\u00adried par\u00adents in Swe\u00adden. That\u2019s how high our break-up rates are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So\u2026 yeah. If it sounds inter\u00adest\u00ading to you, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=LdtuPQAACAAJ\">The Mar\u00adriage-Go-Round<\/a>. Inter\u00adest\u00ading\u00adly, the Google Books page is very sparse right now. How long does it take for new books to get a full list\u00ading?<\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geektechs.net?1776\">1776 dvd<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalmarkets.com?orgazmo\">orgaz\u00admo divx online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Freako\u00adnom\u00adics blog tipped me off to a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading inter\u00adview with the author of a recent book on mar\u00adriage in Amer\u00adi\u00adca. Two of the author\u2019s respons\u00ades stood out to me (empha\u00adsis added): Fifty years ago you had to be mar\u00adried to be a respectable adult in the Unit\u00aded States. Today, mar\u00adriage is optional\u2014you can get \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/04\/14\/why-people-are-getting-married-later\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cWhy Peo\u00adple Are Get\u00adting Mar\u00adried Lat\u00ader\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-la","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}