How does the decline in the proportion of married couples affect
society?  According to census data, married couples no longer
constitute a majority of households in the Twin Cities. The
percentage of married households is down to about 48 percent — a
big change from 1950, when the national number was 78 percent.
Today’s Question: How does the decline in the proportion of
married couples affect society?    • Skyler Vilt      If someone
can give me some tangible facts about why declining marriage
rates is a bad thing, the next question is give me some tangible
facts as to why banning gay marriage is a good thing.    • Steve
Haroldson      Fewer people married really makes it tough for
divorce lawyers to make the payments on their vacation homes and
Porches.    • Wade      Does it?      There is no good reason to
get married other than you want to.      I never understood why
the homosexual community pushed so hard for the right to marry.
They’ve got an easy out when their significant other is hounding
them abo