Wedding bells toll for less, but will the "Right" accept?

U.S. News - Where is Mr. or Mrs. Right? Matrimony suffers slump, report shows: "There’s been a retreat from marriage going on for awhile now," says Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. "The economic fallout from the Great Recession has made the retreat from marriage accelerate. That’s just because even today, Americans see marriage at least in part as an economic undertaking. So particularly when partners, especially men, don’t have decent stable work they are more likely to postpone or forego marriage."
More dramatic news from the report was a 5 percent decrease in the number of new marriages between 2009 and 2010, an unusually sharp one-year drop that “may or may not be related to the sour economy,” according to the Pew study.
Over the long haul, the marriage rate for the 18-29 age group has fallen from 59 percent in 1960 to 20 percent today. Divorce rates soared in the 1960s and '70s, becoming a major factor in the growing contingent of singles in the United States but then leveled off in the last two decades."

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