Anyone have interesting conclusions to this chart? I’m struggling to come up w meaningful long-term positive implications.

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reading this as marriage being an implication of no eq rights? and now that we have more eq rights, less of a role marriage as an institution plays? 

can you expand pls, genuinely curious.

Marriage was not just a matter of love, but also one of necessity. The expansion of civil rights removed the necessity, no surprise marriage rates decreased

One way of seeing it is that equal rights PLUS state support reduces the value of marriage. Example: https://unherd.com/2024/08/the-march-of-kamalas-brides/

Another angle, which I generally do agree with, is that governments may actually benefit from weakening the institution of the family:

One way of seeing it is that equal rights PLUS state support reduces the value of marriage. Example: https://unherd.com/2024/08/the-march-of-kamalas-brides/

Another angle, which I generally do agree with, is that governments may actually benefit from weakening the institution of the family: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/why-is-it-good-for-the-state-t-hHpA2t_XRE6xExK17mHRGg#1