Clickbait title. The reason is because fewer people are getting married in the first place. The author posits that it's a "bad thing" because: * ... the decli

Clickbait title. The reason is because fewer people are getting married in the first place. The author posits that it's a "bad thing" because: * ... the decline of well-paying jobs for those without college degrees makes it harder to form more stable relationships. And thus, marriage is “an increasingly central component of the structure of social inequality.”* And yet, those "well-paying jobs" that led to "more stable relationships"... were more likely to end in divorce before. So if the decline is due to a socioeconomic class less likely to get married, that class historically saw higher rates of divorce. I get what the author is going for, but anchoring to divorce rate (which is dependent on socioeconomic mix and the underlying marriage rate) seems backward versus just talking about marriage rates in the first place.