>>>First time that majority are single:
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>>>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/us/16census.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1168923600&en=8507615d5bdf468e&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin
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>>He includes "women" of 15 and 16 years old. I don't know of many in that age range that are married. If you only count women of 20 years old or older, the actually percentage of married women is about 56%... plus 10% of women are widowed.
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>Which, if applied to previous years (all the way into the fifties) would still show the same trend, and the curve would look the same. The only difference would be that the "tipping point" would be elsewhere.

Well, maybe.
And I guess women, as well as men, get married a lot later in life now then they use to in the rock'n 50s.:)

And marriage is not necessarily good for everyone.