Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Research Associate
Jake Hays is a research associate focusing on social and demographic trends research at Pew Research Center.
In the United States, 12% of married couples with at least one spouse in their 30s or 40s have two incomes and no kids.
In 2023, over 1.8 million Americans divorced. Additionally, a third of Americans who have ever been married have also experienced divorce.
These declines in the number of children adults plan to have occurred almost entirely in the last decade.
The number of households headed by same-sex couples in the U.S. has risen steadily, but they represent a small share of all married couples.
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