Keli Goff: How the Media Got the Story Wrong: Americans Don't Consider Marriage Obsolete After All

If you have access to a computer or a television then in the last few days you saw a headline, heard a news brief, or read a blog post that gave the impression that marriage is going the way of the eight track and the VCR; soon to be relic that American kids will one day point to in a museum and ask, "What's that? " A Google Loading... search for "Marriage is obsolete" renders over one million hits, thanks t...
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If you have access to a computer or a television then in the last few days you saw a headline, heard a news brief, or read a blog post that gave the impression that marriage is going the way of the eight track and the VCR; soon to be relic that American kids will one day point to in a museum and ask, "What's that?" A Google search for "Marriage is obsolete" renders over one million hits, thanks to a new study out from the Pew Research Center and Time which found that 4 in 10 Americans responding to the survey consider marriage "obsolete.

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