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The New York Times reported that over half of the births to US women younger than 30 occurred outside of marriage in 2009. Most of the ongoing rise of births to unmarried women occurred to couples living together but unmarried. So why don’t these young women want to get married? 《纽约时报》报道，在2009年，30岁前怀孕的美国女性中有超过半数是未婚生子。这一数据目前还在持续增长。这里面的很多女性是跟爱人处在未婚同居的状况。为什么她们不想结婚？ Here are seven of the areas that the women who answered my question, “What is the most important thing you wish you had known before you were married?” mentioned most frequently。 对此我进行了一个调查，我的问题是“什么是你在结婚前最想知道的事情？” 以下7件事是她们提到次数最多的回答： 1. I wish I’d known what marriage is really like。 我希望自己知道婚姻的真实面目。 Many of these women got most of their information (really misinformation) about what marriage was supposed to be like from the media and they believed it until reality struck。 婚姻应该是什么样的？大部分女性都是从媒体获得的相关信息(其实都是错误信息)，她们对这些深信不疑，直到受到现实的冲击。 2. I wish I’d known more about myself。 我希望我更了解自己。 | 
