Young Mexicans Do Not Want to Get Married Daniela Guazo - El Universal
go to original November 10, 2014

Marisela Matienzo and Carlos Munoz got married at a McDonald's in the suburb of San Pedro Garza, neighboring Monterrey in Mexico. (Reuters)

Young Mexicans aged 20 to 29 do not want to get married. According to an analysis made by El Universal with data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), from 2000 to 2012 marriages decreased 23% in this age group.

The causes range from better education to a financial independence crisis and a cultural change, experts said.

When Ricardo Fernández turned 28, he bought his first car to celebrate his birthday. He works as assistant manager at a Mexican bank, has not had a partner for more than two years and wants to study a masters degree and live alone. Marriage is not in his plans. His friends, all single and with stable jobs, joke with the subject and call themselves the #foreveralone.

In 2000 more than 700,000 couples got married in Mexico, compared to 500,000 in 2012.

Martha Mier y Terán, researcher at the Institute for Social Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), said that even though the population of marriageable age (15-50 years) has increased, the bad economic situation, a better education and a growing participation of women in the workplace have pushed more Mexicans to postpone marriage.

In addition, there has been a significant increase in the number of couples who choose to live with a partner at first, especially in the last ten years, the researcher said.

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