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Marriage is slowly dying in Scandinavia. A majority of children in Sweden and Norway are born out of wedlock. Sixty percent of first-born children in Denmark have unmarried parents. Not coincidentally, these countries have had something close to full gay marriage for a decade or more. Same-sex marriage has locked in and reinforced an existing Scandinavian trend toward the separation of marriage and parenthood." Stanly Kurtz, The Weekly Standard, 2004
Hoven's Index for August 13, 2010
Marital status of the US population in 1990:
Never Married: 22.2%
Married: 61.9%
Widowed: 7.6%
Divorced: 8.3%
Marital status of the US population in 2008:
Never Married: 25.9%
Married: 57.3%
Widowed: 6.4%
Divorced: 10.4%
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