Love and marriage

The economic crisis of 2001 has impacted Argentine society in innumerable ways. Someone explained the ever declining national rate of marriage saying that it's because people just don't have the money since the crisis. If they're going to have a wedding, they want to do it right, so if they can't, they just don't bother. They'd just as rather live in sin.

I'm not sure how much I believe this one. Maybe societal views toward marriage have been changing as they have in countries all over the world. But there's an omonious Catholic cloud, remnants of things past, that floats over this country and unfortunately still casts its shadow over everything from public opinion to law-making. So maybe if you can justify your living in sin economically, it's harder for people to label your evolving social values as immoral.