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Earlier this week, Pew Research Center dropped a sobering data point into the cultural conversation. Using survey work from the University of Michigan, they asked 12th graders a simple question: Do you want to get married someday?

As of 2023, the overall percentage of participants who answered in the affirmative was 67% — a 13% decrease from 1993. Perhaps the most noteworthy piece of data from the study, though, was that while the percentage of boys who claimed to desire marriage has remained virtually unchanged over 30 years, the percentage of girls expressing the same desire has decreased by fully 22 percentage points.

As the study did not include qualitative data or open-ended questions, the findings do not provide us with reasons why students responded the way they

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