Young women are losing faith in marriage.
This is the takeaway from a dramatic new Pew poll showing that in the past 30 years, the share of 12th-grade girls who say they are most likely to “choose to get married” one day has dropped more than 20 percentage points, from 83% in 1993 to 61% in 2023. Meanwhile the share of young men who hope to get married has remained steady, at around 75%.
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