A short paper on the decline of all things marriage in the U.S.

A higher status marriage system is a smaller, slower, and more stable marriage system.

Review: Divorce, American Style: Fighting for Women’s Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era

Suzanne Kahn offers a fascinating, thorough, and highly readable study of divorce in the history of 20th Century U.S. feminism.

Science says: Get married at age Whatever You Want (and these are the odds of divorce)

Divorce odds are lowest for women who marry later, and for people who've been married a long time.

The pandemic and the family, demography edition (video)

In September 2020 versus September 2019, births were 6.1% lower in Florida and 9.6% lower in California. If this has nothing to do with the pandemic that's even more shocking.

The arriving divorce decline

A 3 percent drop in the refined divorce rate for 2018.

The Coming Divorce Decline, Socius edition

"The Coming Divorce Decline, " which I first posted a year ago, has now been published by the journal Socius.  Three thousand people have downloaded it from SocArXiv, I presented it at the Population Association, and it's been widely reported (media reports), but now it's also "peer reviewed." Since Socius is open access, I posted their…

Divorce fell in one Florida county (and 31 others), and you will totally believe what happened next

You can really do a lot with the common public misperception that divorce is always going up.

Let’s raise the legal age of marriage in Maryland

Today I sent the following letter to the Maryland House Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to hold a hearing on these bills tomorrow. Under current law in Maryland, marriage is permitted as young as age 15 with parental consent and evidence of pregnancy or childbirth, and age 16-17 with one or the other, and these…

How about using half the Bezos fortune to stop US child poverty for one year?

There is a serious fairness issue here, but it doesn't have to do with whether MacKenzie ends up with $1 billion or $68 billion.

Predicted divorce decline rolls on

2017 comes in as predicted, and points toward continued decline in divorce rates.