Fewer people believe marriage makes a family stronger and better off financially, and one-fifth say it’s “out-of-date,” a national poll showed.
Fifty-two percent of respondents to a YouGov survey released Tuesday in a study by Deseret News and the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University said marriage is necessary to “create strong families.” That’s a 10 percentage-point decrease from 2015.
While only 12% of respondents said marriage was “old-fashioned” and “out-of-date” in 2015, 19% expressed the same sentiment in 2021. Fifty-eight percent in 2021 said marriage makes families “stronger and better off financially,” compared to 60% in 2020.
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“Though the overall patterns suggest broad continuity, the numbers continue to see slight erosion in the public’s evaluation of marriage as an institution,” according to the survey’s analysis.
Those who thought marriage was “more of a burden than a benefit” fell from 2020 — from 16% to 13%.
“Perhaps on a better note for evaluations of marriage, the idea that marriage is ‘more of a burden than a benefit’ has fallen very slightly in the pandemic,” the analysis noted.
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The YouGov poll was conducted between June 25 and July 8 among 3,000 adults and had a margin of error of +/- 2 percentage points.
