Mark Dolliver: Takes on Marriage

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On a slow news day, there’s nothing the media like better than stories about the demographic demise of the traditional family. It’s true that households with a married couple and kids are a declining proportion of the population. But a new report from the Census Bureau offers a corrective to the notion that married life has become more the exception than the rule.

Crunching data collected through 2004 on people age 15 and up, the report says 31 percent of men and 26 percent of women have never been married.

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