The US divorce rate
has dropped from 4.8% in 1990 to 3.2% in 2016 thanks to millennials who can’t
afford to get married. The bad US economy has
delayed their ability to be self-supporting and assume a normal life.
There were 61.24
million married couples in the US in 2018.
Home
ownership in the US dropped from 67.4% in 2009 to 64.2% in 2018.
The 2008
Meltdown created a load of foreclosures, jobs dried up and millennials with
worthless college degrees became minimum-wagers.
The cost
of living in the US is higher than it was in 1960 when families lived
comfortably on $8,000 per year. Inflation has moved the average household
income to $60,000 per year and families can live comfortably on $80,000 per
year.
Establishing
families and buying homes requires earning enough to pay the bills. The US off-shored
manufacturing and middle class jobs in the 1990s and is in the process of
restoring those 9 million jobs now as we approach 2020. This has economically
disadvantaged an entire generation of US citizens. Also, from the 1990s, the US
has added 60 million immigrants resulting in job losses for US citizens.
The US
divorce rate has dropped because an entire generation is not getting married.
Some of this is due to financial limits and some of this is due to the decline
in church attendance and an aversion to getting married. More couples are
simply living together. Many break up, but it isn’t recorded as a “divorce”.
Statistics
don’t tell the whole story because they are provided by the statistician who
drowned in a lake with a mean depth of 3 feet.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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