increase in single-parent homes

Look at what has changed in the last 50 years. Marriage is not as an attractive an option as it used to be for our grandparents. Back in the day folks didn't have careers....they had a "job". Not as many people were going to college so folks got married earlier. Economically it was the only way for most people to survive. The man worked, while the woman took care of the home and raised the children. Nowdays.. more people can live "ok" lives without marriage.

Thanks to more people getting educated, more women working, and the availability of credit. Social programs REWARD women for having children and not getting married. Back in the day people did not just get married out of pure "lust", they got married because it made the most practical sense for surviving.

Nowadays folks gets married simply because of a "tingly feeling" they have for a person... without dedication to the more practical aspects of combining 2 sets of resources to improve the lot of future generations. The pro-feminist movement hurt women from being considered "marriage material" in the eyes of men. Women take on NON-attractive masculine traits to establish careers.

Just as most women don't want to marry a femmine acting man. Most men don't want to wife up a masculine acting women. Marriage is no longer imperative for most peoples day-to-day survival as it once was.......... I feel the marriage rate will continue to decline.