[Timwi]

Not sure how to feel about your implication that unmarried people are neither grown up nor adults.

[nradov]

I'm not religious but just looking around it's pretty obvious that many unmarried adults act quite immature (delayed adolescence). Which way the causality runs is harder to determine, but when you're responsible for and accountable to a spouse that forces you to grow up a bit.

[robocat]

> accountable to a spouse that forces you to grow up a bit

Having children forces you, and ~10% of married people don't have kids. In New Zealand, about 50% of kids are born to the unmarried.

As you say, correlation and causation are hard to pick given the selection biases of who chooses to be married, and who your peer group is if you are married.

[yoyohello13]

They are obviously Christian. Christians tend to have a dim view of anyone that doesn't marry and have children (unless they join the clergy).

[znpy]

Most religions do. For example I don’t think islam has a much better view of unmarried and kidless people.

[yoyohello13]

The abrahamic ones for sure.