More 12th-grade boys than girls now expect to marry, study finds
January 28, 2026
More 12th-grade boys than girls see themselves marrying, according to a nationwide study that finds the fairer sex souring on wedlock for the first time in half a century.
The Institute for Family Studies reported this week that 73.3% of boys and 65.4% of girls responding to a University of Michigan survey in 2023 and 2024 planned to tie the knot. The remaining high school seniors said they did not expect to marry or had “no idea.”
