Its okay to be single
By: Kenz & Meg
The Office of National Statistics in the United Kingdom found in June that 25 percent of men ages 65 to 69 are getting married, while 21 percent of women of the same age are getting married, The Express reported. This age group had the largest increase in married couples among both genders. "It's interesting that the largest percentage increase in the number of marriages was for older couples, also that the trend for marrying later in life continues to go up," said Marilyn Stowe from Stowe Family Law to The Express. "The cost of living means that couples need to save for longer and therefore as the country emerges out of recession I would expect the total number of marriages will increase again next year." New York Magazine published a chart that looked at how many women and men are married by the time they're 30 years old. The chart asked "how normal is it" for each gender if they're not married by ages 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40. For women, the normality of not being married by age 40 is at 84 percent, while for men it's at 78 percent. At 35, it's 78 percent normal for women not to be married and 71 percent for men. Women also lead men for normality of not being married by ages 30, 25 and 20, the chart showed. In a study released this past Friday, Demographic Research found that women are more likely than men to sidestep marriage when their student debt level is high. Spencer from New York Times said , “Specifically, an increase of $1,000 in student loan debt is associated with a reduction in the odds of first marriage by 2 percent a month among female bachelor degree/ recipients during the first four years after college graduation,". So basically, student debt only causes women to avoid marriage at first. But eventually things equal out between men and women, the study found.
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