美国人自己婚姻的糟糕状况则不那么令人感到兴奋。人口普查局的数据显示已婚夫妇现在占全部家庭的比例不到一半,这是首次出现这种情况。
The iconic American family, with mom, dad and kids under one roof, is fading. In every statethe numbers of unmarried couples, childless households and single-person households aregrowing faster than those comprised of married people with children, finds the 2010 census.The latter accounted for 43% of households in 1950; they now account for just 20%. And thetrend has a potent class dimension. Traditional marriage has evolved from a near-universalrite to a luxury for the educated and affluent.
典型的美国式家庭是妈妈、爸爸和几个孩子生活在同一屋檐下,现在这种模式正在逐渐消失。在每一个州,未婚伴侣、没有子女的家庭和单人家庭的增长速度都比由有孩子的已婚夫妇组成家庭的增长速度快,2010年人口普查结果如是说。1950年后者占全部家庭的43%;现在只占20%。这种趋势阶级强极具说服力。传统婚姻普遍被视为习俗,现在它已经进化为受教育人群和具有经济实力的人群所享有的奢侈品。
There barely was a marriage gap in 1960: only fourpercentage points separated the wedded ways ofcollege and high-school graduates . The gap has since widened to 16 percentagepoints, according to the Pew Research Centre. ACensus Bureau analysis released this spring foundthat brides are significantly more likely to have acollege degree than they were in the mid-1990s.
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