NEW YORK POST: Marriage data reveals traditional nuclear families are disappearing across US — with a rate of just 13% in one major city

Allison Lax, New York Post, October 13, 2026

The nuclear family structure that once dominated American households is disappearing across the country — specifically in parts of major cities, according to a new report…

The romance-less report on “marriage deserts” showed that fewer than a quarter of households with children are now headed by married couples in certain neighborhoods in Cleveland, Washington, DC, Milwaukee and Detroit, and emphasized a divide between these deserts and suburban-centric “married-family gardens.”

According to the research — which examined both the share of householders ages 15-64 who are married and households with children that are headed by married couples in geographic units that generally contained 100,000 to 200,000 individuals each —  the driest marriage desert is Detroit City (South Central and Southeast), Michigan, where a meager 13% of householders have tied the knot.

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