It Seems Proceeding Generations are Less-&-Less Marriage-Focused

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And I don't mean 'family-friendly,' tho maybe that's a causing factor ... I mean ... well, how I got into thinking about this ... I've done a little bit of 'study' in how 'generations' (not "family generations" (like the grandchildren, then the children, then the parents etc.) but "cohort generations" (people born in a certain year-span ... similar, but not the same). I was thinking about that when I was watching CBS Sunday Morning, who did a story on an adopted child who was reunited with his birth-family 50 years later. They explained that 50 years prior, "shotgun weddings" (where the two are getting married in order to 'make an honest woman' out of the pregnant girl) were not done (and so 'outside of wedlock'-children had to be put up for adoption). But then I think of 'a lot of my aunts & uncles,' who had "shotgun weddings" (I imagine). I used to think--although I was an eldest-brother born in wedlock--that that was one of the ways to GET a girl to marry you---get her pregnant, then she HAS to say yes! A later story featured Demi Lovato, talking about how--when she suffered an overdose that forced her to the emergency room--she'd have died if someone hadn't found her within a few minutes after the overdose. And even then they didn't mention whether she lives alone (or even WHO IT WAS that found her ... her cleaning-staff? her boyfriend? girlfriend?) I had to SEARCH MICROSOFT BING to find out! https://www.bing.com/search?FORM=U523DF&PC=U523&q=is+demi+lovato+married%3F&fbg=0 I remember CBS Sunday Morning (as recently as 'earlier this year') has interviewed married-couples (both partners appearing in the interview: Kurt Russell & Goldie Hawn, VP Kamala Harris & The Second Gentleman). I guess they didn't want to 'pile onto' the depression that drove Demi to drugs. But is "marriage" becoming less-and-less a marker of success? Should we do something about that?