I think this is one of the most startling and tragic statistics I have seen.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) August 3, 2025
Only 12% of 30 year olds are married and own a home.
Marriage, family, and home ownership are the ultimate trifecta of security and happiness.
I hope this trajectory can be reversed. pic.twitter.com/lrE3ROxZhX
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The separate numbers would also be revealing.
The bad news is that it can’t be reversed on any sort of reasonable timeline. First, the underlying issues that brought that startling statistic into being are still extant (social and economic l ruination via feminism and obligatory college degree seeking, and the ceaseless pumping of the housing market, making home ownership impossible for so many) and nothing at all is being done to address those issues on a forward basis. All the same stupid, damaging ideas and policies continue to prevail, thus assuring more of the same.
Secondly, it takes ~21 years to make an adult. The present generation that has eschewed marriage and home ownership is now mostly lost to those institutions, if they haven’t already staked out a position therein. Even if we turned on a dime and corrected conditions to cultivate a society in which normal relationships could prevail, and economic factors assured proper affordability of homes (and again, we haven’t made, and won’t make those change in direction) it will take a generation for such a turn towards sanity to yield sufficient numbers of young adults to start reversing these tests. It would probably take 3-4 generations at least before a real improvement back to a healthy baseline could be claimed as an accomplished fact.
Offering straight up bribes (cash incentives and tax credits) in ridiculously small token amounts to try and encourage marriage, family formation, and home ownership won’t do it, and those are the only carrots on the stick even being discussed presently. A more extreme version of this crisis is hitting China (due to their long time one child policy, and cultural issues that discourage marriage and family formation there as well) and they will face the same trough we are stuck in – two decades minimum to cultivate the population to even start to reverse the trend. And again, to do that will require a massive shift in policy and basic thinking about how things are structured just to create the conditions necessary for young family formation and home ownership to improve and thrive again.
Personally, I see us going right off the cliff, because no one can get a handle on implementing the changes that would have to be made just to begin the process of a legit turn around.
Word. Going along with this trend is the fact of so many of these younger folks never learned a real trade or how to fix, repair, create, or build. Everything in their orbit revolves around gaming, computers, “ethnic studies” and other useless, unmarketable skills. But then, if they join .mil, they will get all kinds of perks. All they have to do is voyage and die for the Neocons, Zionist Banksters, and the Deep State. Sad.
Yeah and there is a shortage of handymen too. I was surprised to find out that in my extended family no one could change a car tire or do an oil change. Well at least they know how to play Call of Duty. Let’s see if they can master the real feel of a .45 or a machine gun and the mental fortitude to use them against foreign invaders.
It still often shocks me how little practical knowledge so many people possess. I’m a plumber by trade, but have been taking on other types of work (electrical, drywall repairs, painting, small household jobs like replacing lock sets, cabinet hardware, etc.) for many of my customers as they simply have no one else they feel they can trust to do good work and not take advantage of them.
I’m also a voracious repairer of all and sundry things; vehicles, appliances, older consumer electronics, computers and power tools that can actually be worked on, small engine powered equipment like generators, pumps, and lawn mowers, etc. in have scavenger and repaired some incredibly nice stuff that would otherwise have cost me a fortune to acquire by more typical means. A lot of which I’ve also resold for a tidy profit to others who needed such items, and couldn’t afford to buy them new.
Takes 35 years to make a partially thinking adult!
Well, that’s true in our current society, certainly. As recently as my grandparents (the generation that grew up in the Great Depression and fought in WWII), the men were generally intelligent and functional adults at 18 or so (from what I can discern), many of them not having even finished high school. And yet their actual, practical accomplishments by their mid 20’s made those of today’s typical 21 year olds look like complete jokes. Further, that generation typically got married at an age we’d now consider highly unusually young, and didn’t significantly delay having children. either.
So, when I said it takes ~21 years to make an adult, I was working off a best possible case scenario where we weren’t encouraging perpetual adolescence, distorting values, and pricing an ever greater number of people out of the housing market, and the ability to afford a family. All of which really got started with the later portion of Gen X, and become SOP with millennials. Figure if we woke up tomorrow morning, and suddenly all our structural societal problems were magically fixed, 21 years is the absolute bare minimum to birth and raise a properly functional generation of adults to have in place to start taking over and running a successful country. More realistically, it’d be 25-35 years, and either way, we don’t that timeframe before detonation occurs.
“You will own nothing and you will have nothing, and you will be happy.” To parody Klaus Schwab’s WEF, motto. Looks as the two wings of the party here in America are making that come true.
This is a multicausal phenomenon. Yes, the increased difficulty in getting gainful employment, homebuying, and finding a mate all matter. But don’t neglect qualitative changes in the economy. There are many more occupations that require personal mobility today than there were fifty years ago. Some of those occupations are among the most remunerative. That has effects on all the above factors, too.