As of December 2011 just 51% of all American adults were married and 28% never had been, down from 72% and up from 15% in 1960.
America’s out-of-wedlock birth rate is soaring. That has social and economic implications. Should governments encourage their citizens to marry?

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    Right, obviously the problem with America is that we just don’t get married enough.
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