Population Research Institute Social Science Research Institute Penn State

Following up on “The Marriage Crunch”

Posted June 2nd, 2006 by Tara Murray in Families

Twenty years ago, Newsweek published “The Marriage Crunch” about the diminishing odds of marrying for white, educated women who did not marry in their 20s. “Marriage by the Numbers” (June 5, 2006) follows up on that story and finds that older singles who want to marry face far better odds than originally predicted.

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