A 2005 report by the National Marriage Project titled "The State of our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America" offered a list of reasons why Americans have become less likely to marry are:
- People are delaying first marriages (waiting to meet right person or complete postgraduate education).
- There is an increase in people choosing to be single for life.
- More people are cohabiting.
- There is a slight decrease in the tendency of divorced people to remarry.
Other findings from the report include:
- The divorce rate today is nearly twice that of 1960 but has been declining since hitting its high point in the early 1980s.
- Most people now live together before marrying for the first time. An even higher percentage of divorced people live together before remarrying.
- Divorced men are more likely to remarry than divorced women. Also, among divorcees who do remarry, men generally do so sooner than women.
- The likelihood of divorce is higher for blacks than whites and higher in the West than in other parts of the country.
- Americans increasingly view marriage and child rearing as separate pursuits.
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