Fewer ‘Middle Americans’ marry or attend worship

Marriage among Americans who have graduated from high school but not
college is on the decline, and their religious attendance has dropped at
the same time, a new report shows.

"Middle Americans" ages 25 to
60 who were in their first marriages dropped from 73 percent in the
1970s to 45 percent in the 2000s, according to "The State of Our
Unions," an annual report from the National Marriage Project at the
University of Virginia.

The group described as "Middle Americans"
constitute 58 percent of the U.S. adult population. Its members have a
high school diploma and may have some postsecondary education buthave
not obtained a four-year college degree.