With wedding season upon us, a new survey suggests you might be going to fewer and fewer going forward.
A poll of more than 906 unmarried Gen Z and Millennials who are currently in a relationship were polled by the Thriving Center of Psychology, which revealed 40% of the people thought of marriage as an “outdated tradition.”
Further, 85% say you don’t need to put a ring on it to have a fulfilling and committed relationship.
Perhaps most interestingly, 52% of women felt this way in comparison to 41% of the men.
This jibes with a 2021 Pew Research study, which found 25% of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never married. That number was 20% in 2010 and just 6% in 1980.
The Thriving Center survey cites the cost of getting married as the most common reason younger Americans aren’t jumping the broom: 73% say the economy makes it too expensive.
However, nearly as many respondents, 72%, say they just “aren’t interested” in getting hitched.
That said, 83% say they hope they’ll eventually marry someone someday.
Survey questions, methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.