More Women Saying "I Don't"
Analysis Finds 51% Of Women Were Single In 2005; Shift Partly Because More Women Work
-
Play CBS Video Video Is Being Single The New Trend? More women than ever are unmarried. In the 1950s, about a third of women were unmarried; now that number is more than 50%. Kelly Wallace looks at why.
-
Kelly Wallace, left, talks with Jessica Cohen, a single 29-year-old woman living in New York who says there's no need to rush into marriage. (CBS)
-
Photo Essay Love Is In The Air Here are some showy proposals and weddings that got attention.
-
Photo Essay High-Profile Marriage Follow Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown on the stormy sea of matrimony.
-
Interactive The Nation We Live In Who are Americans and what do they do? A comprehensive look at our economic, sociological and racial breakdown.
Turns out, they're not alone, CBS News correspondent Kelly Wallace reports. For the first time, more women in America are unmarried than married. Women like 29-year-old Jessica Cohen of New York. "We don't need men anymore," she says. "I mean, we want men, we want someone to share everything with, but I don't think we need to rush."
According to a New York Times analysis of census results, 35 percent of women in the "Ozzie and Harriet" days of the 1950s were single. That number jumped to 49 percent in 2000 and to 51 percent in 2005.
Why the trend in saying "I don't?" Younger women are marrying later or just living with someone instead, while older women are living longer than their husbands and are choosing not to take another walk down the aisle.
"I've been through two marriages, and single is better for me," one woman explained.
Another reason: More women are working and supporting themselves.
"If they didn't find that guy that just clicked with them at a certain point in time, they didn't give up. They decided, 'I'll just do a little bit more of my career. I'll look a little longer,'" says William Frey, of the Brookings Institution.
And culturally, it's more acceptable to be single. Think of Angelina, living with Brad and the kids without a ring.
It's not just Hollywood stars. It's real women everywhere.
As one Dallas woman explains, "I'm single right now and I feel actually happy about it."
A Miami woman says the best part of being single is "you can flirt a little bit."
And in downtown Los Angeles, Jessica says, "I want to get married so I can have kids, make my Mom happy, my Dad too."
She'd rather not belong to the new majority.
© MMVII, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Best-selling author Mitch Albom on his first nonfiction work since "Tuesdays with Morrie."





- 1
- 2
- next
See all 38 Comments------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Charlie Madison
http://www.talkingdating.com
for more details about this login to http://www.talkingdating.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Charlie Madison
<a href="http://www.talkingdating.com">Talking Dating</a>
for more details logon to http://www.talkingdating.com
------------------------------------------
Julie
www.talkingdating.com
for more details login to http://www.talkingdating.com
regards,
Julie
www.talkingdating.com
for more details regarding this login to http://www.talkingdating.com
for more details about this login to <a href="http://www.talkingdating.com">Online Dating</a>
But in response to your comment about 40+ women who want to just marry any guy%u2026 I think I%u2019ve meet more 40 married women AND men who have a tendency, when speaking of their spouse, can%u2019t do so without rolling their eyes and letting out an %u201Coh jeez!%u201D type of groan. I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.
51% of females 15 years and older are now married (except separated);
9.4% of females 15 years and older are widowed;
11.5% of females 15 years and older are divorced;
2.6% of females 15 years and older are separated; and
25.5% of females 15 years and older are never married.
Does anyone know the source or authority for the reported 51% not married?
Dataguy2: No where in the following postings did I read anyone saying that women were better then men. Nowhere in the story broadcasted on CBS was anyone saying that either. (trueprogress might disagree with me)
George2221: When a guy asks a girl out and she tells him that she%u2019s in a relationship and she%u2019s really not%u2014she%u2019s basically saying, very politely, %u201CI don%u2019t want to go out with you.%u201D
(Women are taught to keep a person%u2019s feelings in mind when they are letting them down)
Exusmcsgt: Marriage is a sacred vow, NOT a bargain. For every man who is %u201Ctaking to the cleaners%u201D by a women there are just as many women whose husband%u2019s cheated on them. (oh but wait%u2014that was probably her fault, it was probably her non-performance as a wife that led him to do it)
If you read it closely you find that they include 15, 16 and 17 year old girls (who should not be included in this type of study) as well as women who are Widowed
All to reach their desired goal. (Can you say AGENDA?)
CBS should have scrutinized this study much more closely (unless they have an agenda themselves?)for accuracy.
If you read it closely you find that they include 15, 16 and 17 year old girls (who should not be included in this type of study) as well as women who are Widowed
All to reach their desired goal. (Can you say AGENDA?)
CBS should have scrutinized this study much more closely (unless they have an agenda themselves?)for accuracy.
Then they don't need the science and inventions that men have put to use throughout the centuries.
But then again TRUEPROGRESS's comment could also be understood as a legal wedding/marrige between members of the same ***, not opposite ***.
Good point, TRUEPROGRESS.
An 11 year old girl !!! 10 football players ? Where is the media and social outrage ?
You can't blame Fresno.
has found a huge resonance with both single women and men. Singelringen wearers are proud to be single. They don't need a wedding contract to validate who they are. They enjoy their single life while being open to possiblities.
- 1
- 2
- next
See all 38 Comments