Minority of American couples have tied the knot

 | Mail Online

Married couples are in the minority in America for the first time.

In last year’s U.S. census, married couples represented 48 per cent of all households, down from 52 per cent a decade earlier.

Experts attributed the change to a fast-growing older population who are more likely to be divorced or widowed, and young people delaying marriage amid fears of not being able to hang on to a job and a shift away from having children at a young age.

Meanwhile the number of opposite-sex couples living together rather than marrying jumped 13 per cent from 2009 to 7.5million.