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Some issues here:
1) Marriage being pushed until later in life is because women are empowered to delay settling down now that they have their own careers and educational objectives.
2) Divorce rates are actually falling.
3) Real estate has risen because mobility has risen. Go look at what real estate looks like in the cities that were booming in the 1950s … Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Green Bay. The cities in the 1950s that looked like those cities today were Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Phoenix, San Antonio, Dallas. Nobody wanted to live there 70 years ago just like nobody wants to live in the industrial Midwest today.
As industry changed, so did population patterns. Supply and demand comes into play. Of course a new home in San Francisco is going to cost a lot more than a new home in Youngstown. Supply and demand. Want to change that? Flip the demand curve.
3) It’s not so much inflation of currency as it is inflation of lifestyle. The average home in 1950 was three bedrooms and one tiny bathroom. 800 square feet with a small kitchen. Today? The average home is almost 3x as big and every bedroom has its own bathroom. Open floor plans are the rage along with having separate family rooms from their dining and living rooms.
4) If you measure things per median hour of labor, not much has changed. Real estate per square foot has remained close to the same outside of a few hot markets. Education has increased, but so has the expectation of lifestyle for those students. Lazy rivers, climbing walls, technology oozing from every corner. Want cheap college? Go back to card catalogs instead of Lexis Nexus. Want cheap college? Go back to steam heat and window fans instead of mini splits and air conditioning. Want cheap college? Go back to 800 person lecture halls instead of 10:1 student teacher ratios. Want cheap college? Go back to bathrooms shared by 30 people instead of suite style living arrangements. Want cheap college? Go back to cheap slop dining halls instead of gourmet kitchens.
Food is basically the same per labor hour. So are cars. So is fuel. Technology has gotten MUCH cheaper.
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Another issue with this - if you had invested your money and bought real estate, you would have kept up with and profited from inflation. My investment portfolio has 4x in past 10 years, I can afford anything I want. The same old school principles hold true - save, invest, buy small property and get on the real estate ladder. The younger generation prioritize vacations, lifestyle, restaurants…I can imagine they are feeling the pinch
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