40% of Young Japanese: “Marriage Is Worthless!”:
"Japan’s younger generations increasingly fail to see the point of marriage at all,
with a survey of 37,000 revealing some 40% feel the institution “has no merit.”
A survey of 37,610 Japanese asking the question “Do you agree with the
sentiment that ‘I don’t understand the merits of marriage’?” found some distinctly
negative attitudes to the merits of marriage in abundance.
Of the total, 33.5% agreed that the merits of wedlock were hard to fathom, still
leaving a respectable majority of 66.5% of the opinion the institution has some
merit.
However, broken down by age, the younger generations were drastically less
likely to see the point of marriage, and the most enthusiastic support seems to
come from geriatrics:"
See:
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/0...-is-worthless/