Our daughter will soon be 19. When she was learning to drive, my wife and I taught her to drive manuals. At that time, 3 of our 4 vehicles has manuals (84 CJ7, 87 MJ, 05 Honda CRV). She prefers driving the manuals over the one automatic (03 Suburban).
We have recently added a 5th auto - '11 Subaru Legacy w/ 6 spd manual.
Unfortunately, manuals are getting hard to find new.