Young Americans Are Killing Marriage - Bloomberg

Young Americans Are Killing Marriage - Bloomberg
"...New research tries to ground those observations in solid data.

The National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University set out to compare 25- to 34-year-olds in 1980—baby boomers—with the same age group today. 
Researcher Lydia Anderson compared U.S. Census data from 1980 with the most recent American Community Survey 1   data in 2015.
The results reveal some stark differences in how young Americans are living today, compared with three or four decades ago.
In 1980, two-thirds of 25- to 34-year-olds were already married. 
One in eight had already been married and divorced.
In 2015, just two in five millennials were married, and only 7 percent had been divorced.
Baby boomers' eagerness to get married meant they were far more likely than today's young people to live on their own.
Anderson looked at the share of each generation living independently, either as heads of their own household or in married couples.
The chance that Americans in their late twenties and early thirties live with parents or grandparents has more than doubled. 
In 1980, just 9 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds were doing so.
In 2015, 22 percent lived with parents or grandparents.
Millennials are also less likely than boomers to be living with kids—and to be homeowners..."