Women are spending a shrinking share of their lives as wives, according to an analysis by the Center for Retirement Research. Examining data...

Percentage of American adults who are white, married, and Christian... 2015: 28% 2010: 31% 2000: 35% 1990: 46% 1980: 56% Source: Pub...

For men, the 30-to-34 age group is the age of marrying. That's when the percentage of men who are currently married rises above 50 perce...

Percentage of men and women aged 25 to 29 who have never married... Men aged 25 to 29 2014: 68% 2000: 52% 1980: 33% 1960: 21% Women ...

Among the nation's married couples, wives are more educated than husbands in 20.7 percent. This figure exceeds, for the first time, the ...

For baby boomers and younger generations of married couples, Social Security will not replace as much household income as it did for older g...

Percentage of men aged 25 to 29 who have never married, 1970 and 2012... 1970: 19% 2012: 63% Source: Census Bureau, America's Famil...

Among parents aged 15 to 44, percent who have had a child outside of marriage... Men: 47.3% Women: 49.3% Source: National Center for He...

The First Union. That's the term used by the National Center for Health Statistics to describe the first time a young couple sets up hou...

Among the nation's employed, women are much more likely than men to have their health insurance provided by someone else's employer,...

Working wives now provide more than one-third of the income of married couples. Here is the percentage of the income of married-couple famil...

Current marital status of women aged 40 to 44... In a union In first marriage: 49.6% In second or higher marriage: 13.6%  Not marr...

Same-sex couples are increasingly likely to identify their household relationship as married rather than unmarried partner, according to the...

Non-Hispanic whites as a share of married couples with children under age 18 at home: 65% Non-Hispanic whites as a share of married couple...

Among the nation's 169 million ever-married men and women, 75 percent have been married once, 20 percent have been married twice, and 5 ...

The median age at which men and women marry for the first time continued to climb in 2012. Men now marry for the first time at a median ag...

Do you keep secrets from your spouse? Many Americans do, according to an AARP survey. Seventeen percent say they have not told their spouse/...

Every year since 2008, the American Community Survey has collected data on marriage and divorce in the United States. Here are some of the f...

Among married women under age 65, fully 72 percent are covered by employment-based health insurance, but only 36 percent have employment-bas...

Only 49 percent of the nation's households are headed by married couples, according to the 2012 Current Population Survey, down from 53 ...