The married minority.

• Position: SOCIETY - Brief article

For the first time in history, married couples constitute a minority of U.S. households, according to an analysis of census figures by The New York Times. The American Community Survey, released in October by the Census Bureau, found that 49.7 percent, or 55.2 million, of the nation's 111.1 million households in 2005 were made up of married couples. This is just shy of a majority and down from more than 52 percent in 2000. These numbers do not mean that marriage is dead. The total, number of married...