My Friends, the song went Love and Marriage go together...yadda yadda. But not it seems in the good old U. S. Of A. At least not as a majority of US folks. The US Census Bureau in its 2005 American Community Survey said 50.2 percent of households were unmarried. It broke it down more with these interesting but not totally unsurprising numbers from an article from yahoo news:
More than 14 million households were headed by single women, another five million by single men, while 36.7 million belonged to a category described as "nonfamily households," a term that experts said referred primarily to gay or heterosexual couples cohabiting out of formal wedlock.
In addition, there were more than 30 million unmarried men and women living alone, who are not categorized as families, the Census Bureau reported.
By comparison, the number of traditional households with married couples at their core stood at slightly more than 55.2 million, or 49.8 percent of the total.
I wonder what ten years from now the Census will look like?
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