This week in my FAML 160 class we learned about the statistics of marriages and current trends of relationships. We also watched a documentary about the future of the family like the fertility rates and birth rates.
I was interested in the trends of relationships. We discussed the connections between the following trends: Cohabitation, marriage age, living alone, pre-martial sex, unwed mothers, birth rates and divorce.
We discussed that divorce rates are actually going down but that could be caused by cohabitation going up thus people aren't divorcing because they aren't marrying. Also, the marriage age is later than it used to be, nowadays it is 26 for women and 28 for men so the older marrying age may be contributing to why people aren't divorcing, they are more mature when they choose to marry.So, I was very interested in the trends of the current generation and exploring possible causation like I showed above.
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