I'm shocked to not see divorce mentioned once in the entire article. Millennials are a generation from broken and blended families. It seems to be the norm to have separated parents, an event that is usually traumatic and expensive. Why get married if you are most likely going to get divorced? And for those with married parents, they often see their parents as unhappy and only together because of religion/money/young children.<p>If you talk to children of divorced or unhappy parents about why they are unmarried, you often hear "I don't want to end up like my parents" pretty close to the top of the list.
Yeah there some good points there but mainly it's because the past 10 years (the prime for marriage for millenials) have been a sh*t show, and the sh*t show is still going strong. From recession and not being able to find a job, to political turmoil and both sides of the political aisle going insane claiming it's the end of world because their candidate was or was not elected, to a global pandemic and those same political issues carrying over to the pandemic, and now we seem to be in a gridlock of some kind.<p>Of course it sucks to not have kids, but in a way good, because i have no idea what's coming in the next few years. Nobody wants to reach out to the other side, both sides feel like the other is the worst in the world, tensions keep rising, but there is no resolution on the horizon.