The Study of the New Heritage Foundation shows worrying trends for US families

EXCLUSIVE – The United States is facing a cultural folding point when it comes to values ​​regarding marriage, childbirth, divorce, coexistence and abortion, according to the recent report of the Heritage Foundation. Despite the fact that the research shows that their children were raised by their married, biological parents have better results, it was not a trend in American life in recent decades.

Delico Squires Heritage Scholarships and Rachel Sheffield spent a deep dive to the state of the American family in their new report called “Crossroads: American Family Life at the intersection of tradition and modernity”. In the study they, through their research, claims that the nation at the intersection, with one way marked by declining marriage, low birth rateHighly unconvincing birth of children, occasional divorce and rejection of biological gender, while the second time it promotes marriage, birth of children and understanding that children do best when they are raised by their married biological parents.

The report quoted data that was revealed that Americans were less married and later, Fewer children are bornBut more are born out of marriage, more couples are involved, marriage and family are no longer priorities and that American singles are facing a “puzzle connection”.

“A nation that rejects the importance of stable marriages and strong families for well -being weakens his ability to convey the blessing of prosperity to future generations,” the report said. “This is the reality that Americans face today, and the direction they move now will determine the health and survival of the Republic.”

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Sheffield said Fox News Digital This, despite the technological progress, is now more unrelated to the nation because of the fall of family formation and marital stability.

Marriage rates in the United States are further declining, and married couples today make up only 47% of households compared to 78% in 1950, which was regardless of race, religion or socioeconomic status. Now 40% of children are born out of marriage and The total birth rate is on a record low.

“Forty percent of children are born to single mothers today, and almost two thirds of the birth of these single mothers are women who are in a community with a romantic partner (whether a child’s father or other romantic partner) at the time of the child’s birth,” the study said. “So, about a quarter of American children lives in a common parent at some point in their lives.”

In addition, more adults between the ages of 18 and 44 are in common, 59%than in marriage, 50%. Most of the association relations end up by breaking and although they can predict marriage in the future, this is often not happening, the report states.

“About half of the parents who have joined the child are terminated together by the time their child fills three, compared to only 13 percent of married parents,” the study continues. “By the age of 12, two -thirds of the community parents were terminated compared to one quarter of married parents.”

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For those who get married, the middle age for her first marriage has increased by about eight years for women and about seven years for men.

“More Americans are common today, so lived out of marriage with a romantic partner than they were married,” Sheffield said. “As we continue to see the rates of the first marriage and the decline in marriage, we will only have fewer people in marriage.”

In tandem, the total fertility rate decreased from 3.65 in 1960 to 1,62 in 2023 and many pairs simply by choosing that they do not have children.

Over 40% of respondents between the ages of 18 and 49 said they probably won’t have children, according to Research on Pew Research Center from 2021. Some said they just did not want to have children, while other reasons included medical issues, finances, without partners and age, as well as the “state of the world” and climate change.

Sheffield said that leaders in the lives of children and young people should equip them with skills they need for healthy marriages.

“Most people still want to get married, but not knowing how to get there,” she said. “Especially for those who have lower income and a working -class America, where we see a larger family breakdown, with models and vision and knowing how to do it also reduced it.”

Squires agreed, arguing that a large part of repairing the fall of the value set on the nuclear family raises consciousness, including that public officers see this as something that is worthy of their time and attention, even if that does not mean that a new law will be adopted.

“The pulpit of the abuser is extremely powerful and very effective because it refers to the proclamation of public virtues and public values,” Squires said. “I think the messengers in this area need to promote the belief that marriage is valuable, desirable, affordable and necessary for the purpose of establishing families and this generation and for future generations.”

A decline in marriage can also be attributed to what Sheffield and Squires call “the” puzzle of connections “.

“One of the biggest factors associated with happiness is a healthy marriage, and we talk about this epidemic of loneliness in society and there is really a lot related to the fall of marriage,” she said.

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Considering the ubiquity of smartphones and social media, people should be much easier in the theory, but Squires said the single is even harder to meet people now than in the past decades.

“Although there is an illusion that people are more connected, the internet connection does not translate into a real relationship,” he said. “In some ways, I would claim that technology makes it even harder to find a spouse because the applications are not directed towards marriage, they are directed towards short -term relationships, if even that.”

“There is the idea that we have reached the peak of progress, but nothing holds anything from the things we currently see as that progress, in terms of family formation, holding them in their place in a permanent,” he added.

If America continues on his current trajectory, Squires said that family life would be more complex and more complex because families will be broken, fewer children will grow up with dad, and the single will be increasingly difficult to get to know each other.

“What you will see are the family trees that are all stuck to say it nicely and, in the end, you will have a situation where people will not even know who their parents are and if you are in a big city or small town, you will have children who eventually go out to your half of your sister, in the end,” he said. “I don’t think this is a beautiful picture and this is not a kind of downfall and darkness, but this is a sincere assessment of what the data currently tell us.”

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Squires emphasized the fact that, although conversations about marriage and families are often framed by partisan conditions, he and Sheffield see it as a double -sided issue.

“These are changes that are social changes, not just unique to a particular party or one special political ideology,” he said.