So if this study is true, with marriage and birth rates being on a steady decline for decades while divorce rates have been rising.....
The drop in marriages is even more dramatic when the rapid growth in the U.S. population is taken into account. In fact, the marriage rate is the lowest in at least 150 years.
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The U.S. birthrate fell again in 2018, to 3,788,235 births — representing a 2% drop from 2017. It's the lowest number of births in 32 years, according to a new federal report. The numbers also sank the U.S. fertility rate to a record low.
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shouldn't women be "happier" now than ever?
But when Hedegaard and her colleagues compared the rise in the rates of death by suicide from 2000 to 2016, the increase was significantly larger for females — increasing by 21 percent for boys and men, compared with 50 percent for girls and women.
There's "sort of a narrowing of the [gender] gap in rates," Hedegaard notes.
The biggest change was seen among women in late middle age. "For females between the ages of 45 and 64, the suicide rate increased by 60 percent," she says. "That's a pretty large increase in a relatively short period of time."
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Things don't seem to be adding up.
For anecdotal public examples, just look at some of theses broads in entertainment/Hollywood. Tamron Hall just got married and had a baby(after a struggle) at 50. Clearly she wasn't happier single and childless. Vivica is out here expressing her regrets to the world. Tyra Banks was out here talking about her struggles to have children until she finally had a child. Gabrielle Union is taking care of a side baby to keep her husband/family. Where are all the examples of these happy single childless women?
Growing old alone isn't what's up and you shouldn't need a "study" to tell you that.
As I mentioned about traveling overseas. Material shyt and money can't replace family and children.
These folks I deal with overseas be much happier than my american counterparts yet they have less money. IMO the main reason for that is that the folks overseas are tight knit with their family. They come from big families who do everything together. Every weekend is a family gathering.
In america most families don't even do a lot of shyt together as a whole. The closes I can compare in america rural area people (mostly southerners). Who can be extremely poor but can be very happy due to having big families and spending time with one another.
Also with gabby union a better example is how she had multiple miscarriages and felt empty because she couldn't carry a child to full term.
