Was this statement true? Single, 35-40 & Marriage Chances?

';A single, 35 to 40-year-old woman had a better chance of being killed by a terrorist than getting married.';





This statement was associated with a research study.Was this statement true? Single, 35-40 %26amp; Marriage Chances?
newsweek recently did a cover story about how this myth is completely untrue and kind-of apologized for printing that misinformation back in the day.Was this statement true? Single, 35-40 %26amp; Marriage Chances?
Susan Faludi addressed this in her Pulitzer Prize winning book, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.





Unfortunately I don't remember her rather long explanation, but it had something to do with the formula the researchers used: it worked under the assumption that women married men 15-20 years OLDER, and most of the 55-60 year old men at the time were married. The research was totally flawed, but they slapped the headline all over Newsweek.





Actually, the book is wonderful at dispelling myths and addressing WHY people have the urge to scare women into thinking something in their lives is wrong due to feminism.
Depends on the woman, depends on the man.





Some men prefer an 18 year old who likes the $100 camera because it's pink over the 40 year old who likes the $1,000 camera because it's a good quality item.





Some rather have the more practical woman, even if she has a few wrinkles here and there.
If you know the quote, you know the story. Newsweek apologized for the statement, pure hyperbole, 20 years after publishing the article.





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http://www.alternet.org/sex/37582/
Marriage is dropping in general. Not getting married does not necessarily mean beeing lonely.
Sounds like a false statement, because women in that age bracket are always getting married, and are more liable to get married then younger women.
According to a study done of college-educated single women in 1986 (that's the most recent one I have), 30-year-olds have a 58% to 66% chance of marrying, 35-year-olds have a 32% to 41% chance, and 40-year-olds have a 17% to 23% chance. The survey you're thinking of was taken using a sample of 60,000 households, while the one I'm citing used 13.4 million households.





EDIT: I should probably add that 70% of women polled the year before believed their lives would still be ';happy and complete'; even if they were unmarried. It went up to 90% four years later.
Probably true, unless the woman is hot, sexy and sexual, you know all the things men want.