Record Share Of Americans Have Never Married Essay

While I was growing up, I never dressed up in pretty dresses and played pretend marriage. I never had the desire to be a bride, have a beautiful wedding, or have that dream of living with my significant other for the rest of my life. However, I always thought that that’s what the typical little girl dreamed of. I thought I was weird for not wanting to get married, but according to Wendy Wang and Kim Parker who wrote an article called Record Share of Americans Have Never Married, “After decades of declining marriage rates and changes in family structure, the share of American adults who have never been married is at an historic high”. (Wang, Wendy, and Kim Parker). When I thought that everyone else wanted to get married and were getting married, I was wrong. I never knew that marriage rates were going down, I didn’t think that most women find it important to find a partner with a steady job, and I didn’t know equality rights between men and women have increased. Like I said before, I never thought marriage rates were going down, but it does make sense as well. More and more people are together, living together, providing for one another, but don’t have that legal marriage title. These days, in my opinion, with divorce rates going up and people tossing aside relationships like tossing …show more content…
Backed up with facts and visual statistics, I came to realize what is actually going on in today’s world with marriage, wages, and equality. I never knew that marriage was actually declining, but due to this article, I realize that it’s drastically declining and it does make sense. It’s the same with women wanting a man with a steady income, or equal wages between men and women. Overall, it made sense. Marriage is expensive, women want a man with a steady income to also support them, and the wage gap between men and women has