Growing Uncertainty in Marriage Expectations among U.S. Youth

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dc.contributor.authorCohen, Philip N.
dc.contributor.authorPepin, Joanna R.
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-25T16:34:51Z
dc.date.available2024-04-25T16:34:51Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-26
dc.description.abstractMarriage rates are falling in the United States. The authors ask whether today's young adults are likely to continue this trend. Using Monitoring the Future Public-Use Cross-Sectional Datasets (1976-2022), this visualization presents U.S. 12th graders' marriage expectations. It shows declining optimism that they will be "very good" spouses and declining expectations that they will eventually marry. Both trends are prominent in the last 10 years of the survey, and both are more dramatic among young women than among young men. If these trends hold, it may foretell further declines in marriage rates in the coming years.
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/23780231241241035
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/3qs5-ab0r
dc.identifier.citationPepin, J. R., & Cohen, P. N. (2024). Growing Uncertainty in Marriage Expectations among U.S. Youth. Socius, 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231241241035
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/32543
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherSocius
dc.relation.isAvailableAtCollege of Behavioral & Social Sciencesen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtSociologyen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, MD)en_us
dc.subjectmarriage
dc.subjectfamily
dc.subjectyouth
dc.subjectUnited States
dc.titleGrowing Uncertainty in Marriage Expectations among U.S. Youth
dc.typeArticle
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