Exclusive – The United States faces a cultural turning point when it comes to values related to marriage, childbearing, divorce, coexistence and abortion, according to a report issued by the Heritage Foundation. Despite the fact that research shows that children who have been raised by their married fathers, their biological fathers have better results, this was not the trend in American life in recent decades.
Heritage scientists Dylano Squares and Rachel Sheffield He made a deep diving In the case of the American family in their new report entitled “Crossroads: American Family Life at the intersection of traditions and modernity”. In the study, they argue through their research, that the nation is at a crossroads, with one path characterized by the decline in marriage, Low birth ratesHigh childbearing, informal divorce and biological sex rejection, while the other path enhances marriage and childbirth and understanding that children work better when raised by their married biological parents.
The report was martyred with the data that found that the Americans marry less and then, Less children are bornBut it generates more marriage outside of marriage, and more husbands coexist, marriage and family are no longer priorities and that the American individuals face the “mystery of communication”.
The report says: “A nation that rejects the importance of stable marriages and strong families of its well -being, its ability to transfer the blessings of prosperity to future generations,” the report says. “This is the reality faced by the Americans today, and the direction they take now will determine the health and survival of the republic.”
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Families by type, 1950-2023 (Heritage Foundation/American Statistics Office)
Sheffield said Fox News digital Despite technological progress, the United States is now connected as a nation due to low family formation and marital stability.
Marriage rates in the United States continue to decline, as husbands make up only 47 % of families today compared to 78 % in 1950, which was regardless of race, religion, or social and economic situation. Now, 40 % of children are born out of marriage and The total birth rate at a low standard level.
“Forty percent of children are born to single mothers today, and about two thirds of births for these single mothers are women who coexist with a romantic partner (either the child's father or another romantic partner) at the time of the child's birth,” the study indicates. “Thus, about a quarter of our children live in a family of greeting parents at some point in their lives.”
In addition, more adults between the ages of 18 and 44 may coexist, 59 %, compared to 50 %. Most standards end up in separation and although they may expect marriage in the future, this does not often happen, the report says.
“Nearly half of the parents who suffer from the coexistence of a child who are separated together by the time when their third child reaches, compared to only 13 percent of married parents,” the study continues. “By the age of 12, two thirds of the reluctant parents were separated, compared to a quarter of married parents.”
A share of adults coexist as a share of all adults who live with a partner, 1967-2023 (Heritage Foundation/American Statistics Office)
For those who marry, the average age for the first marriage has increased by about eight years for women and about seven years for men.
“They have coexisted with more Americans today, so they lived together out of marriage with a romantic partner,” Sheffield said. “As we see the first marriage rates and the decline in marriage, we will have fewer people.”
In Tawda, the total fertility rate decreased from 3.65 in 1960 to 1.62 in 2023, with many husbands simply Choose not having children.
More than 40 % of the respondents between the ages of 18 and 49 said they are unlikely to have children, according to A survey of the Pew Research Center from 2021. Some people said they simply do not want to have children, while other reasons included medical issues, financial resources, no partner and age, as well as “the state of the world” and climate change.
Sheffield said that leaders in the lives of children and young people need to provide them with the skills they need to obtain healthy marriages.
“Most people still want to marry, but they don't know how to get there,” she said. “In particular, for those who enjoy low income and the American business class, where we see the largest number of family collapses, and they have models of that, vision and know how to do this has also decreased.”
Squires agreed, on the pretext that a large part of repairing the decrease in the value placed on the nuclear family agreed to raise awareness, including making public employees see that this is something worth their time and attention, even if this does not mean that a new law will be passed.
“The pulpit of Fatwa is very strong and very effective in terms of declaring public virtue and public values,” Squares said. “I think that the Apostles in this field need to enhance the belief that marriage is valuable, desirable and accessible and indispensable for the purpose of starting a family of this generation and for future generations.”
The decrease in marriage is also due to the so -called Sheffield and Squires “puzzle connection”.
She said: “One of the greatest factors related to happiness is the presence of a healthy marriage, and we are talking about the epidemic of unity in society, and many of this is related to a decrease in marriage.”
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A share of 18 adults and above gets married ever marries and marries now, 1962-2023 (Heritage Foundation/American Statistics Office)
Given the spread of smartphones and social media, in theory, it should be easier for people to communicate, but Squires said that individuals find more difficulty in meeting people now more than the past decades.
“While there is an illusion that people are more connected, online connection does not translate into real connection,” he said. “In some ways, I would like to claim that technology makes it difficult to find the husband because the applications are not directed towards marriage, they are directed towards short -term relationships, even if that.”
“There is an idea that we have reached a kind of top of progress, but there is nothing that carries any of the things that we currently see this progress, in terms of the formation of the family, who hold them in their place permanently.”
If America continues in its current path, Squires said that family life will be more complicated and complicated as families will be broken, fewer children will grow with my father and individuals will find increasing difficulty in meeting each other.
He said: “What you will see is the family trees that all flounder to put them well, and in the end, you will have a position in which people do not know even those who are their parents, and if you are in a big city or a small city, you will have children that end up dating their half of their brother in the end.” “I don't think this is a beautiful picture and this is not a kind of perdition and depression, but it takes an honest evaluation of what the data is telling us now.”
Squires emphasized the fact that although talks on marriage and family are often framed in part of the party, he and Cheffield believes that this represents a issue of the two parties.
“These are changes are social changes, not only unique to a specific party or political ideology,” he said.
