The New York Times published the fact that 51% of women live without a spouse.

They used census data that included "women over the age of 14". So it is including 15 year olds up to the end of still breathing.

Another group took the census info and got rid of the top end and bottom end. Using the age bracket of 25 to 64. (Average age of marriage these days being 26).

This brings it down to the percentage of single women in America to 34%.

(San Fransisco having the highest percentage at 44% locally).

here in penn state it's like 7 to 1,

Actually, there are 5,929,663 men to 6,351,391 women. But it didn't give ages. I think it is total population, infants to old people.

But not a 7:1 ratio.

There were only three States (Alaska, California, and Hawaii) where the female population grew at a faster rate than the male population. In Alaska, the female population grew by 16 percent compared with 12 percent for the male population. In California, the rate of growth was 14 percent for the female population and 13 percent for the male population. In Hawaii, the rate of growth for the female and male populations were 11 percent and 8 percent, respectively.

The only decline in total population over the decade was in the District of Columbia. The population in the District of Columbia declined by 6 percent with the male population declining by 5 percent and the female population by 7 percent.

"live without a spouse" is an interesting way to phrase it. So living with someone who is not your spouse would still classify a person as single in this case.

The information sounds kinda flawed.

...just be lucky that you don't live in china...

roco

Good point!

That's some sad sh!t.

Happy to be a girl in America, even a single at that

Last I heard....
Families with children 25%

*shrug*

I wonder what those current stats compare with the stats for ten, twenty, and thirty years ago, and if it shows a trend?

Just to see if the stats are spiked or curving towards a stasis or plateau effect.