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What Americans think about marriage, sex and the future
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"The survey results coincided with what other research finds: a majority of young Americans say getting married is important to them. Additionally, marriage is connected with better outcomes for adults, children and society. Married individuals are, on average, happier, healthier and wealthier, and children do best when raised by their married mother and father," writes Rachel Sheffield for The Daily Signal. - photo by Deseret News
A new report by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture unpacks American attitudes about faith, family, marriage and more. Researchers gathered 15,738 surveys from adults ages 18 to 60 to get a sense of changing attitudes regarding topics like cohabitation — 44 percent think it's OK, 30 percent neutral, 25 opposed — to whether marriage is an outdated notion — 66 percent say no, 10 percent say yes. "The survey results coincided with what other research finds: a majority of young Americans say getting married is important to them.