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Re-births follow wars. Will the great pandemic (the “invisible war’’) unleash a marriage and baby boom like the one that followed World War II?
A March 30 poll found 13 percent of U.S. adults saying they are having more frequent sex during lock-down. Condom sales crashed worldwide as communities closed. Hard liquor sales jumped 75 percent. Babies in 2021?
Marriages in America just hit an all-time low: 6.5 new marriages for every 1,000 people (40 percent of the post-World War II peak rate of 16.4 per 1,000 in 1946).
Just half of U.S. adults live with a spouse versus 70 percent in 1970. Seven percent live with unmarried partners compared to 1 percent 50 years ago. The current birth rate of new children is the lowest in a century.
“Millennials are in peak marriage years, their 20s and 30s, and it’s still dropping,” researcher Sally Curtin warns. “This is historic…A lot of it is the economy, and the extent to which COVID has a lasting effect on the economy, it might affect family formation.”
