 |  Suzette Vearnon | author | innovator | leader of STATISTICS BE DARNED happily married bundle of hilarious joy YOU DESERVE LOVE!
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 In 2009, ABC News referenced 1.8 million more black women than black men. "So even if every black man in America married a black woman today, one out of 12 black women still wouldn't make it down the aisle if they hoped to marry a Black man. (Lindsey Davis and Hana Karar). If you're a single woman serving in the U.S. military, you're more than 200 percent more likely to get married than single civilian women are. Emily Hull (2007): Military Service and Marriage: A Review of Research. And who can forget this epic line from Newsweek's 1986 cover story, The Marriage Crunch, "Women over 40 are 'more likely to be killed by a terrorist' than find a husband." Not quite as riot-inciting but equally dismal, the The U.S. Census Bureau confirmed that the probability of college-educated women marrying at age 30 was 60 percent, and 23 percent at age 40 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, October 2013: Monthly Labor Review). Statistics be darned! |
