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Originally posted by NotFromHere
I think that's right. But still, 24% of 60% of all women is still high, no?
That's like 14% of all women between 40 and 69 have never been married. Ever. I would have thought it was in the single digits.
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I wouldn't have. The idea that absolutely everyone is supposed to be matched off in pairs is actually a fairly modern one. The marriage rate increased quickly during the middle of the last century, aparrently topping out sometime in the 1980s, and is now slowly declining back to 19th century levels.
Anyhow, based on my highly scientific google search which turned up census info, in 1997, 27% of men and 20% of women over 18 had never married, and in 1998 35% of all people between 25 and 34 had never married (so far). That's "never married," not widowed or divorced.
BR(it is a surprising pain in the ass to find statistics that exclude children and formerly-marrieds)C
