“Some women may want to have children in the context of marriage. “This is somewhat outdated and changing, but fertility and marriage are somewhat related,” he said. The new report focused on 40-year-olds to reflect the fact that adults tend to “take stock of their lives at the start of a new decade of life,” Fry said. “In all prior generations of American adults, less than 1 in 5 adults had not tried marriage by age 40,” said Pew senior researcher Richard Fry in an email to CNN. Its findings revealed a downward trend of delaying marriage or foregoing it altogether among people born during or after the 1960s, according to the report. The research center conducted the analysis to look at how marriage rates have changed among 40-year-olds in the US from 1850 to 2021.Ĭensus shows America is more diverse and more multiracial than ever The findings, which suggest a shift in Americans’ views of the importance of getting hitched, differed widely to the statistics reported decades ago in 1980, when just 6% of 40-year-olds had never married, Pew reported. “One-third of those with a high school diploma or less had never married, compared with 26% of those with some college education and 18% of those with a bachelor’s degree or more education,” according to Pew. It also showed people of that age with at least a bachelor’s degree were less likely to have never walked down the aisle than 40-year-olds who had reached fewer educational milestones. The Pew report found that 40-year-old men were more likely not to have been married than women and Black 40-year-olds were “much more likely” to have never wed than their peers of different races.

A map from the US Census Bureau shows the the percentage of the population of multiracial decent.

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