How the Bad Economy Breaks Up Families [View all]

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-10/how-the-bad-economy-breaks-up-families.html




It could be a future diorama at New York’s Museum of Natural History: A human male and female who not only got married, but stayed married.

Divorce among 50-somethings has doubled since 1990. One in five adults have never married, up from one in ten 30 years ago. In all, a majority of American adults are now single, government data show, including the mothers of two out of every five newborns.

These trends are often blamed on feminists or gay rights activists or hippies, who’ve somehow found a way to make Americans reject tradition.

But the last several years showed a different powerful force changing families: the economy.