For every 100 single chicks there are 88 unmarried guys available

[Mayareira]

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(CNN) -- There are 96 million people in the United States who have no spouse. That means 43 percent of all Americans over the age of 18 are single, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

"Single" is defined as adults who have never been married, are divorced or are widowed in the bureau's America's Families and Living Arrangements survey of 2009.

Of the singletons, 61 percent of them have never said "I do." Twenty-four percent are divorced and 15 percent are widowed.

An increasing number of these single Americans -- more than 31 million -- are living alone, according to the census. They make up 27 percent of all households, up from 17 percent in 1970.

About 46 percent of all households nationwide are maintained by a single person. That adds up to 52 million singles.

And 11.6 million single parents -- mostly mothers -- were living with their children in 2009.

The census reported 9.9 million single mothers and 1.7 million single fathers lived with their kids.

Seventeen percent of singles were 65 years or older in 2009. Some 766,000 single grandparents were caring for their grandchildren in 2008.

In over 6 million households in 2008, single people were living together without benefit of marriage. Only about half a million were same-sex couples and 38 percent of those had at least one biological child of either partner living with them.

More than half of the unmarried Americans are women. And for every 100 single women, there are 88 unmarried men available

There were 904 dating services available as of 2002, employing nearly 4,300 people to help the single folks find each other and the companies collected $489 million that year.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/08/19...ex.html?hpt=C1

[Mertron]

And every single one of those women are insane.

[Rhyis.]

Get these women some penis, stat!

[Grey Jorildyn]

Good.

Less people need to get married for the wrong reasons. Even less need to have kids they don't know how to raise.

ITT: unmarried women must be ugly.

[Blarg]

that's why guys cheat, to make those other women happy

[Heavencloud]

And the other 12 women have iPads, thus depleting their need for a male.

[Mayareira]

^ see tech thread, Apple users get laid much more than the rest.

[Zilong]

Good to know that men have a 12 point handicap in the overall average

What is the gay margin of error though?

[Builttolast]

^ see tech thread, Apple users get laid much more than the rest.

blowing steve jobs doesn't count as "getting laid"

[Pirian]

blowing steve jobs doesn't count as "getting laid"

No but getting fucked in the ass by him does

[JigglyJam]

Yeah but how many of those chicks are obese, ugly, and have kids?

[Colenzo]

No but getting fucked in the ass by him does

I lol'd! bravo sir

[Alvein]

Assuming that this is a change to an older rate, This may be partly related to the higher than normal unemployment rate. Who thinks about getting married when they can't provide any stability to their future partner?

[Pirian]

Yeah but how many of those chicks are obese, ugly, and have kids?

around 14% (this article used age 18+, but the only statistic I could find for total obese Americans was for 20+, so give or take 2% probably)

Overweight added in there too, and not just obese? 29%

oopsy this only counts for overweight/obese. Can't add in other factors for you, data may overlap, etc.

[Zilong]

Yeah but how many of those chicks are obese, ugly, and have kids?

African American counts for 12% of US population...

So...12?

Kinda a creepy coincidence if you ask me

[JigglyJam]

Oh, math. From 31 million singles with a 100:88 women to men ratio should be 16.5~ million single women. 9.9 of them have kids sooo.... 60% of single women have kids. Assuming I did that right. Fuck that noise.

29% doesn't sound too bad for obese/overweight though.

EDIT: percent of women who do not have children and are not overweight: 28%? is that right? 40% * 71%? That's really depressing if I did that right. I think I might need to visit east asia for a wife when I'm ready.

[Builttolast]

No but getting fucked in the ass by him does

Touché

[Ashira]

And every single one of those women are insane.

Or we've wised up and realized men just aren't worth it.

[Kaisha]

The census reported 9.9 million single mothers and 1.7 million single fathers lived with their kids.

Do men just really dislike kids and run like the wind when they accidentally knock up their women, or is the legal system biased towards women keeping the kids?

[Penthesilea]

For black men, it's the former. For white men who want to be a part of the kids life, the latter.