Excerpted from the Wash Post:
The proportion of adults who are married has plunged to record lows as more people decide to live together now and wed later, reflecting decades of evolving attitudes about the role of marriage in society.
Just 51 percent of all adults who are 18 and older are married, placing them on the brink of becoming a minority, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
That represents a steep drop from 57 percent who were married in 2000.
The marriage patterns are a striking departure from the middle of the 20th century, when the percentage of adults who never wed was in the low single digits.
In 1960, for example, when most baby boomers were children, 72 percent of all adults were married.
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