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My seatmate on a plane wants marriage ‘someday.’ Why Gen Z is waiting

May 31, 2026
My seatmate on a plane wants marriage ‘someday.’ Why Gen Z is waiting

Lucy Kelley, 21, will soon graduate from Georgia Tech, and I recently encountered her on a plane as she was heading to Copenhagen with friends and I was traveling to Brussels for a conference on family policy.

When I asked, she told me she wasn’t married but thinks she might like to be one day, maybe a few years down the road. She’s less sure if she wants to have kids, she said.

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