Percentage of married couple households below 50%

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By Moday we will be inundated by people telling us this proves we should let homosexuals marry each other(of course those who enage in homosexual behavior already have the same right to get married the rest of us do)
 
Oh, good grief. Why are so many up in arms about this? Unmarried households include: my husband’s grandma, my parents’ 80-year-old next door neighbor, my husband’s friend who lives on his own, my widowed aunt, my sister-in-law who has never been married and lives far from family, my friend who moved in with her dad after her marriage failed, and various never-married women in my church who decided to invest in homes for themselves. “Unmarried” doesn’t automatically mean immoral. Geez.
 
Unmarried households include a variety of living arrangements, such as people who live alone, single parent households, unmarried partners, roommates, and adult blood relatives sharing living quarters
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The article notes the diversity among unmarried households, but it doesn’t try to break it down into numbers. I’m guessing the biggest changes has come from people who live alone - which wouldn’t be a bad thing, in itself.

Certainly an increase of unmarried families is worrisome - yet the article doesn’t give numbers relating to this. However, it does mention the efforts of unmarried families to gain the spousal protections of married households. So there are political and economic dimensions to the issue which probably merit more examination.
 
Seekerjen,

I would agree with you if I had not looked at previous years.

In **1950 78.2% **of all households contained married couples.

In **1960 74.3% **of all households contained married couples.

In 1970 70.5% of all households contained married couples.

In 1980 60.8% of all households contained married couples.

In 1990 56% of all households contained married couples.

In 1998 52.9% of all households contained married couples.

In 2005 49.7% of all households contained married couples.

Source: usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0101/ijse/numbers.htm

That obviously means married couple households have dropped from 78.2% to 49.7% over the last 56 years, with the largest drops coming over the last 36 years. No matter how we choose to spin it, those are very bad numbers.

Additionally, since 1890 the average population per household has droped from 4.93 to 2.57 in 2004. Source: infoplease.com/ipa/A0884238.html

Here are some more lousy stats:

The number of unmarried couples living together increased 72% between 1990 and 2000. U.S. Census Bureau, 2000

The number of unmarried couples living together has increased tenfold between 1960 and 2000. U.S. Census Bureau, 2000.

Source: unmarried.org/statistics.html
 
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