Older people don\u2019t want to get married; youngsters aren\u2019t dating. But maybe there\u2019s more to life than being in a couple<\/p>\n
Sorry, Valentine\u2019s Day is cancelled: we\u2019re in a relationship recession. Analysis of demographic data by the Financial Times<\/a> shows a dramatic decline in married or cohabiting young adults, with tanking \u201crelationship formation\u201d rates in countries as diverse as Thailand, Finland, Peru, South Korea and Turkey. In the US, the marriage rate fell by 54%<\/a> between 1900 and 2022, while younger people aren\u2019t even dating: the percentage of 16- to 18-year-olds who report having dated has dipped under 50%, the Atlantic reports<\/a>, \u201cwith the decline particularly steep in the past few years\u201d.<\/p>\n My immediate thought is: well, obviously. The resurgence of the far right, accelerating climate collapse, geopolitical instability and deep economic precarity aren\u2019t exactly Marvin-Gaye-and-oysters vibes. As relationship red flags go, isn\u2019t getting horny amid imminent global catastrophe one of the biggest, reddest ones? I\u00a0just\u00a0have to imagine Elon Musk and I\u2019m ready to be walled up in\u00a0an\u00a0anchorite\u2019s cell.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Older people don\u2019t want to get married; youngsters aren\u2019t dating. But maybe there\u2019s more to life than being in a couple Sorry, Valentine\u2019s Day is cancelled: we\u2019re in a relationship recession. Analysis of demographic data by the Financial Times shows a dramatic decline in married or cohabiting young adults, with tanking \u201crelationship formation\u201d rates in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}