美英报刊阅读教程（第三版）Lesson5 Dating and Mating for Over-35s.pptVIP

Lesson 5 Dating and Mating for Over-35s Lesson 5 Structure Analysis Key to Questions Photos Diagrams Additional Notes Background Information Contents 1. Fewer Americans than ever are getting married The number of Americans getting married has dropped to a 40-year-low as divorce and changing attitudes have replaced “I do” with “I won’t”. In the mid-1960s about 80 percent of U.S. men and women ages 25-34 were married, but starting in the 1970s, the marriage rate began to decline as divorces rose, more women joined the workforce, more women attained education and delayed marria