According to a Pew survey, 20% of young adults are postponing marriages due to concerns about the economic slowdown. This percentage of married young adults (18 -29) is at an all-time-low compared to the 59% in 1960.

Postponing babies seem to be the trend as well. Bloomberg News reported that births in the US have fallen since 2008, reaching a 12-year low last year. It is also the smallest population gain since World War II.

However, an unorthodox matchmaker is getting couples to say "I do" despite of the economy.

"Getting married strengthens a person's drive to produce better.  A higher production improves finances." said Hellen Chen, bestselling author and matchmaker.

After helping about 50 couples tie the knot and following their lives even after marriage, Chen can give numerous accounts of how the couple's lives became more prosperous and how having babies, despite concerns about financial burdens, get couples to excel even better in their careers.

Chen wrote about these real-life stories of couples in her book: The Matchmaker of the Century. This book was launched on Barnes and Noble recently and while debunking many marriage myths such as "romance ends where marriage begins," it struck a chord with readers and achieved #1 bestselling status in 6 categories: marriage, self-help, relationships, love and romance, self-improvement and parenting and family.

Chen's matchmaking and marriage theories were further augmented by the recent Nobel Prize win of two American economists, Alvin Roth of Harvard University and Lloyd Shapley of the University of California Los Angeles, who applied the matchmaking process in scientific ways to medicine and to job seekers, and thus prove that correct matching improved the results for all involved.

This award-winning theory was based on a 1962 study by Shapley on traditional matchmaking which proved workability on creating a stable relationship.

This unorthodox matchmaker earned her title by helping numerous men and women who had lost faith in relationships, resistive about love and who had basically given up on the possibility of experiencing a good marriage life.
"The family unit is the building blocks of society. The formation, not reduction of families will help our economy. A couple's influence on their immediate areas of life is more than they can imagine." said Chen.