[babelfish]

[Citation required] for almost every sentence in your post - most importantly "it is the backbone driving the most valuable members of our society". What a ridiculous assertion.

[rayiner]

Given that virtually every human is raised in a family, I think you’re the one that needs to prove your outrageous statement to the contrary.

[tsol]

It's not that crazy. Even economically, the people that are gonna support us when we are old and senile are currently being reared as part of families

[user3939382]

I guess you missed the first two words of my comment.

[chrisco255]

Citations aren't required for opinions.

[grumple]

It's easy to verify that married people make more money than unmarried people: https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/married-wage-gap/#:~:text=....

It's easily verified by data you can find in many studies, and presumably the census itself. Of course it doesn't technically prove causality - it could be that the type of people who are successful just happen to be the same type of people who get married. Or maybe they get married precisely because they are successful - or unsuccessful people have a harder time finding spouses.

[abeyer]

But that's totally orthogonal to the statistic under discussion about people living near their blood-relations. You can move across the world and still get married, or live nearby and never.