About half of never-married Americans have used an online dating site or app
36% of Americans who are divorced, separated or widowed say they have ever used a dating site or app; 16% of married adults say the same.
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36% of Americans who are divorced, separated or widowed say they have ever used a dating site or app; 16% of married adults say the same.
45% of Americans don’t think it makes a difference that there is growing variety in the types of family arrangements people live in.
The landscape of relationships in America has shifted dramatically in recent decades. Read eight facts about love and marriage in the country.
The share of U.S. children living with an unmarried parent has more than doubled since 1968, jumping from 13% to 32% in 2017.
In the United States, 48% of American adults say they are married. A higher-than-average share of adults are married in certain religious groups.
In the past 10 years, the share of U.S. adults living without a spouse or partner has climbed to 42%, up from 39% in 2007.
Among U.S. adults ages 50 and older, the divorce rate has roughly doubled since the 1990s.
Roughly half of U.S. cohabiters are younger than 35. But an increasing number of Americans ages 50 and older are in cohabiting relationships.
Six-in-ten Catholics say the church should allow those who are divorced and have remarried without obtaining an annulment to receive Communion, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center Survey.
62% of U.S. Catholics think the church should allow Catholics who have been divorced and remarried without an annulment to receive Communion.
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