Via the NYT, 51% of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse:
For what experts say is probably the first time, more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census results.In 2024, 51 percent of women said they were living without a spouse, up from 35 percent in 1950 and 49 percent in 2024.
This is one of the stories where a minor statistical fluctuation is treated as Big NewsTM. If we look at that chart that the Times provides we would note that in 1990 53% of women lived with a spouse-with that number going to 51% in 2024 and now the magical 49% in 2024.
Now, that there was a major shift in the utter centrality of marriage in shaping the lives and choices of women in undeniable–but it took place some decades back. However, a diminution in the survey from 51% to 49% in the survey is as easily a function of sampling error as some magical newsworthy event. Indeed, the numbers for the last decade and a half are within a 4% range.
Of course, for some reasons, the Times has a seeming obsession with marriage and fifty-percent thresholds.
One of the factors at play is less the eschewing of marriage as it is a function of people waiting to get married:
The proportion of married people, especially among younger age groups, has been declining for decades. Between 1950 and 2024, the share of women 15-to-24 who were married plummeted to 16 percent, from 42 percent. Among 25-to-34-year-olds, the proportion dropped to 58 percent, from 82 percent.
Of course, the bottom line of the overall trend is that women are no longer in a position wherein marriage is their only viable option starting in their late teen years and that’s a good thing. Of course, marriage is a good thing, too.
January 16th, 2024 at 11:54 am
Assuming there has not been an underground growth in polyandry, then nearly 50% of men are san spouse, too.
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The story is here.
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The studies are clear, the story claims, but if you rea…
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