Marriage data reveals traditional nuclear families are disappearing across US with a rate of just 13% in one major city

The nuclear family structure that once dominated American households is disappearing across the country — specifically in parts of major cities, according to a new report by the Institute for Family Studies.The romance-less report on “marriage deserts” showed that fewer than a quarter of households with children are now headed by married couples in certain neighborhoods in Cleveland, Washington, DC, Milwaukee and Detroit, and emphasized a divide between these deserts and suburban-centric “married-family gardens.”According to the research — which examined both the share of householders ages 15-64 who are married and households with children that are headed by married couples in geographic units that generally contained 100,000 to 200,000 individuals each —  the driest marriage desert is Detroit City (South Central and Southeast), Michigan, where a meager 13% of householders have tied the knot.The second spot was a tie between Milwaukee County, City of Milwaukee Central (WI), Cleveland City (East) and Bratenahl Village (OH) and District of Columbia (East, D.C.) at 14%, followed by St.Louis City North (MO) and Columbus (Central) and Grandview Heights Cities (OH) at 15%.Atlanta Regional Commission, Fulton County (Central) and Southwest Atlanta City (GA) and Cincinnati City in Central Ohio snagged second-to-last spot on the list at 16%, while Boston City (Alston, Brighton and Fenway) and Chicago City (South) topped off the list at 17%.When it came to households with children that are led by married couples, the study found these homes tended to be located in affluent suburban regions, with fewer in metropolises and parts of the Southeastern U.S.

Cleveland City (East) and Bratenahl Village (OH) had the lowest percentage of households led by a married couple in the areas involved in the study, while KIPDA Area Development District (Central) in Louisville/Jefferson Co (Northwest) (KY) was at the highest of the low-ranking areas at 26%.Conversely, in the larg...