itated a rise in the rates of premarital sex and conjugal living without marriage, and the Woman's Liberation Movement which sought alternatives other than marriage and maternity for women (Perrucci and Knudsen, 1990).
While it is true that both males and females are waiting longer in the 1990s to marry than their counterparts did in the 1950s and even the 1970s, it is also true that marriage motivated by feelings of love remains a goal of choice for most men and women (Game, 1997; Kemper, 1990; Perrucci and Knudsen, 1990). Census data indicates that approximately 70 percent of men and 65 percent of women over the age of 18 in the U.S. are either divorced or currently married; this figure increased to 80 percent of men and 85 percent of women when those who are either divorced or widowed are added in (Perrucci and Knudsen, 1990). Many factors are involved in the continued high rate of marriage. Among those are an effort to conform oneself to the expectations of society, a desire to show oneself to be "normal," a concern for legitimating sex and children, and
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