Read a May 31, 2011, Science and Religion Today article on whether a declining marriage rate will affect the country’s overall happiness.

Read a June 17, 2011, New York Times article on changes in divorce trends among highly educated women.

Read a June 17, 2011, Associated Baptist Press article about whether marriage is a dying institution.

Read a June 26, 2011, New York Times editorial on the state’s acceptance of gay marriage.

Read a July 3, 2011, essay in The New York Times about the increasing disparity in marriage patterns of the affluent and the poor.

See a July 28, 2011, post by The Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan on Americans’ shifting attitudes about premarital and extramarital sex.

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