11 Oct
All the Single Ladies
Some fascinating facts from this compelling article from The Atlantic:
- Today, 40 percent of children are born to single mothers.
- 2010 was the first time in American history that women made up the majority of the workforce.
- Siberia is suffering such an acute “man shortage” (due in part to massive rates of alcoholism) that both men and women have lobbied the Russian parliament to legalize polygamy.
- In societies where men heavily outnumber women—in what’s known as a “high-sex-ratio society”—women are valued and treated with deference and respect and use their high dyadic power to create loving, committed bonds with their partners and raise families. Rates of illegitimacy and divorce are low….When confronted with a surplus of women, men become promiscuous and unwilling to commit to a monogamous relationship….In societies with too many women, the theory holds, fewer people marry, and those who do marry do so later in life.
- Fifty percent of the adult population is single, compared with 33 percent in 1950.
- When honeymoons first started, in the 19th century, the newlyweds brought friends and family along for the fun.
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