What's going on, team?

Why are marriage rates in decline?

There seems to be a disproportionate amount of people that are not only checking out from dating,

but are just checking out from marriage altogether.

And so there was some recent data that came out from the United States Congress,

the Joint Economic Commission.

Marriage is now between 6.9 to 6.5

marriages per thousand people. That is down significantly from the 1980s, the 1990s, in the early

2000s. And what seems to be fascinating is that as we reach this sort of all-time low within

marriages, there seems to be a couple of things

sort of driving this. So I wanted to talk about why did we get married in the first place?

Is marriage really even worth it? And why might you do it? Right. So I'm going to share a little bit

about my personal story towards the end. But one of the things that I found fascinating as I was

doing research for this was that trends that are being set right now are showing that people are just opting out of dating and marriage altogether, right?

There's men between 18 and 29, 66% of men in that age bracket are single.

And of that age range, 50% of men so that they're not even looking for a

partner or a relationship. And then you have women who projections are showing that by 2040,

45% of women between the age of 25 and 45 are going to be childless and single, right? So not in a marriage and without children.

And that's the highest that will ever been, period. Not only that, and this is a different topic,

and maybe I'll talk about this in a different video, of those women who don't have children,

right, post menopause, the women who sort of get out of the window that they

can have children, eight out of ten of those women say that it was non-intentional, meaning that

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