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Title: The End of Marriage
Source: Spearhead
URL Source: http://www.the-spearhead.com/2010/01/08/the-end-of-marriage-2/
Published: Oct 6, 2010
Author: Charles Martel
Post Date: 2010-10-06 11:20:44 by Lysander_Spooner
Keywords: None
Views: 364
Comments: 11

The End of Marriage

by Charles Martel on January 8, 2010

The marriage rate is declining in the USA and other Western countries. You knew that. But what exactly does that mean? Men and women are still marrying. Marriage will continue, won’t it? Let’s take a look at the data for the USA.

The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia publishes an annual report titled The State Of Our Unions which includes data on US marriage rates since 1960. From 1970 through 2008, the US marriage rate has declined from 76.5 to 37.4 marriages per 1,000 unmarried women — see the chart below:

Charts at URL source. It’s immediately obvious that the decline of marriage can be divided into two distinct periods. From 1968 through 1977, as the seismic shocks of the sexual revolution and the Vietnam war rolled through our society, the marriage rate tumbled from 79.1 to 63.6. Then from 1980 on, the marriage rate settled into a steady decline to arrive at 37.4 in 2008.

Let’s take another look at the later period of the data set:

Michael Mann, Phil Jones and the Hockey Team would have to do some serious adjustments on a data set like this. Not only is the marriage rate declining, but the rate of decline is accelerating. Let’s fit a trend line. The best fit trend lines are second and third order polynomials with R-squared of 0.9868 and 0.9871 respectively:

So there it is. If the current trend continues, sometime between 2028 and 2034 the US marriage rate will reach zero. What will America look like in year one AM?

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#1. To: Lysander_Spooner (#0)

What I have been seeing for several years are couples who do not get married but live together and have kids.

I know one guy, about 26, who lives with a woman with whom he has two children. She has two children from another guy.

Another one lives with a woman with whom has one children. He has another one by another woman, who took the child out of state. This particular man apparently two other children.

When people act like this, they are acting more like animals than humans. No civilization can survive this.

"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson

Turtle  posted on  2010-10-06   11:26:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Lysander_Spooner (#0)

Marriage is for white people.

The noblest man will marry the lowest daughter of a base family, if only she brings in money. And a lady will share her bed with a foul rich man, preferring gold to pedigree. Money is all. Good breeds with bad and race is lost. -- Theognis

Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2010-10-06   11:36:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Lysander_Spooner (#0)

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡

ghostdogtxn  posted on  2010-10-06   11:37:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Lysander_Spooner (#0)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-10-06   11:46:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Turtle (#1)

When people act like this, they are acting more like animals than humans. No civilization can survive this.

Humans *are* animals. Why shouldn't we act like them?

As for 'survival', have you ever been in divorce court? If you ever have at least half of your stuff taken away from you and made to pay monthly installments for the privilege thereof, you'll never marry again.

Samuel Gray  posted on  2010-10-06   11:50:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Samuel Gray (#5)

Humans *are* animals. Why shouldn't we act like them?

Animals have no culture and civilization.

You'd feel differently about your comment if someone decided to brain you and take everything you own, just like an animal would.

"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson

Turtle  posted on  2010-10-06   11:55:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Turtle (#6)

Animals have no culture and civilization.

You'd feel differently about your comment if someone decided to brain you and take everything you own, just like an animal would.

Um...yeah...I'm just gonna let that one stand on its own. Just made my personal Top Five Dumbest Things I've Ever Read on the Internet list, though.

Good job.

Samuel Gray  posted on  2010-10-06   12:06:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#2)

Marriage is for white people.

True that.

This is one thing I think the bruthas have gotten right.

They have their 'fiances'.

Don't trust no white man law, and neither do I.

Peace.

Lysander_Spooner  posted on  2010-10-06   12:37:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: ghostdogtxn (#3)

Okay. So what?

Not sure I get ur point.

People will make their own arrangements, agreements outside the 'State'.

Lysander_Spooner  posted on  2010-10-06   12:39:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Lysander_Spooner (#9)

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡

ghostdogtxn  posted on  2010-10-06   16:07:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: ghostdogtxn (#10)

spot on, thanks.

Lysander_Spooner  posted on  2010-10-06   18:05:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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