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今天給大家介紹的閱讀話(huà)題是關(guān)于美國(guó)人的最新婚姻狀況發(fā)生了一些變化：Most Americans would get married, if only they could find someone suitable。和早些年不同，現(xiàn)如今大多數(shù)美國(guó)人愿意結(jié)婚，前提是能遇到合適人選。來(lái)看主要內(nèi)容：

AS A high-powered media executive in New York city, Leah had been wary of marriage. These days she and her husband manage two full-time jobs and the care of their 18-month-old daughter. Leah still works nearly 50 hours a week and earns a bit more than her husband, but she also handles most of the routine caregiving, cooking and cleaning at home. Juggling everything often leaves her feeling “inadequate,” she admits, but she chalks it up to the struggle of trying to have it all. “Rich world problems, right?” she says with a chuckle.

Leah女士是紐約一位熱衷工作的媒體主管，個(gè)人對(duì)待婚姻十分謹(jǐn)慎。現(xiàn)在她和丈夫養(yǎng)育者18個(gè)月大的女兒，并且還各自擁有全職工作。她每周工作50個(gè)小時(shí)，收入比丈夫還要高，但家里照顧女兒，做飯和家務(wù)的責(zé)任也主要由她承擔(dān)。她承認(rèn)，同時(shí)做這一切時(shí)常讓自己覺(jué)得“不稱(chēng)職”，但她把這看成是為了同時(shí)擁有家庭和事業(yè)的努力。“富人的問(wèn)題，不是嗎?”她輕笑著說(shuō)道。

While fewer women are marching to the altar—the proportion of those married before the age of 30 has fallen from 50% in 1960 to around 20% today—the ones that do increasingly look like Leah. Highly educated, financially independent women were once among the least likely to get hitched. Now they are getting married at a faster rate than their lesser-educated peers, and often to highly educated men. These unions are not only the most common, but also the most harmonious. New data show that America’s divorce rate has continued its plunge from its 1981 peak—from 5.3 to 3.2 divorces per 1,000 people in 2014—but this decline is largely concentrated among the better-educated.

在三十歲前能夠結(jié)婚的女性自六十年代的50%減少到如今的20%，像她這樣的女性越來(lái)越多。曾經(jīng)，高學(xué)歷、經(jīng)濟(jì)獨(dú)立的女人是不受歡迎的對(duì)象，而如今她們比受教育更少的女性更早結(jié)婚，對(duì)象常是同樣受高等教育的男性。這類(lèi)組合不僅最常見(jiàn)，也常是最和諧的。新的數(shù)據(jù)表明美國(guó)的離婚率持續(xù)降低，自1981年離婚高峰的0.53%。下降至2014年0.32%。——但這一降幅主要集中在文化水平更高的群體中。

這篇文章給我們介紹了當(dāng)今美國(guó)社會(huì)婚姻狀況的最新情況，是不是和你原來(lái)的印象有很大不同呢?以后找對(duì)象還是要找文化程度高的呀，文化程度低的男性對(duì)男女在家庭中的分工也更容易有過(guò)時(shí)的觀(guān)念，他們中更多人會(huì)在女性收入高的關(guān)系中感到不舒服，相較受教育更多的男性而言，他們更少參與子女教育，做家務(wù)活也更少。這是科學(xué)的證明呀!