Wendy McElroy gives some startling statistics on the decline of marriage in her piece on The Marriage Strike (by men who don’t much like what current family law has to offer them). During the first half of the ’90s the marriage rate dropped from 9.8 to 7.6—I had no idea there had been such a sharp downturn. The piece gives sources, and I link it at a site that includes it as part of a collection of related items called “ Civilization“