34% of people in the historically Black Protestant tradition think fewer marriages will be bad for society, versus 14% who say this will be good.37% of Catholics say a decline in marriage will be negative, while just 6% say it will be positive.42% of mainline Protestants say fewer people ever getting married will have a negative impact on the future of the country, versus just 7% who say this will be positive.Census Bureau data.Įvangelical Protestants express the most concern about the decline of marriage in the United States: 55% say that fewer people ever getting married will have a negative impact on the future of the U.S., while just 4% say it will have a positive impact.īut evangelicals are far from alone in taking a negative view of a decline in marriage: adults have been delaying marriage or increasingly forgoing it altogether, according to Center analysis of U.S. Religion and views about the decline in marriage Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and the survey methodology. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S.
Address-based sampling ensures that nearly all U.S. Everyone who took part is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This analysis is based on a survey of 5,073 U.S. Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to better understand how people in the nation’s largest religious groups view trends in marriage, fertility and family life.
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