The Decline of Marriage Is Hitting Vegas Hard

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>The Decline of Marriage Is Hitting Vegas Hard

>Working-class troubles mean fewer weddings in the marriage capital.

>Nevada’s marriage rate has plummeted in recent decades, an extreme version of a pullback happening across the U.S. The forces that have reshaped the nation’s economic life since the 1970s have helped make marriage an institution increasingly reserved for the well-educated and more affluent. A spate of recent research suggests America’s marriage gap is cementing disadvantage.

>Marriage has become a clear dividing line in a stratified country. Its decline is most pronounced among those who didn’t go beyond high school, as better educated people tend to marry each other. America’s working and middle classes are faring badly, and the research points to unraveling families as one cause.

>Men who marry drink less, work more and report greater happiness. Marriage allows couples to combine incomes, share costs and take advantage of tax breaks. Finally, children from stable, two-parent families do better in school and the job market, so today’s divide promises to entrench advantage or disadvantage. Recent research on middle-class despair showed that mortality is rising in middle age for less-educated white Americans, and authors Anne Case and Angus Deaton have been pointing to the move away from marriage as one possible factor.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-07-11/vegas-is-bearing-witness-to-america-s-economic-marriage-divide

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It's not just Vegas though. It's happening all over the country. Not enough men earning degrees and climbing the corporate ladder to solidify a well-paying career that'll allow them to get married and support a family.

Women are earning all the degrees now and don't want to "marry down" to working class men.

Isn't it time for men to put the video games down and step their game up?