Fewer than 50% of U.S. adults are now married. It's time to give more legal and financial breaks to single people, law professor says.

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58% : Childcare costs, meanwhile, surged due to a labor shortage in daycare centers and public schools.
47% : "Changes in social mores, the legalization of same-sex marriages, bans on gender discrimination in labor markets, and widening economic inequality make it more likely that today's households will consist of a multi-generational family, single parents, unmarried partners, childless married couples, and married parents who both earn income in the paid labor market," Dickerson added."'That's just not the way American society looks anymore.'"-- Mechele Dickerson, law professor at the University of Texas, AustinMarried couples have many advantages in the U.S.

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