Where have all the single men gone?
If you are a single lady you may be out of luck. Turns out there are fewer single men out there as compared to desperate eligible women.
(U.S. Census Bureau) For every 100 single women, there are 88 unmarried men available.
Uh-oh. Unless these women are willing to partake in threesomes or marry a polygamist, I am not sure how this is going to equate.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau there are actually a ton of lonely aching hearts out there. To be exact, there are 96 million single people.
And when I say single, I mean I don't care that you're dating Joe Schmoe, unless you have a ring on your finger you're technically considered single. Which is something that my mom always told me...who knew she was actually right.
"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.
Do you know what this means? That there are millions of single women with a naked left hand, each night praying at their bedside for those magical four words girl let's have sex? Will you marry me?
I wonder why there are all these single people out there. Are we as a society finally putting more stock into careers instead of marriages? No wait, we just like to have sex, make babies and break up.
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.
There is nothing wrong with being single. I did it once. And as I seem to recall I did OK. Sure, there was plenty of drinking and crying myself to sleep, not to mention some really bad poetry and drunk texts, but I was OK.
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.
Yahh. This one time I paid for a dating service. A little website called match.com. I met someone, shacked up with him, told him I loved him and then left him for another man. It was a whirlwind two months.
But anyways, perhaps we have moved away from a time of commitment and love and shifted toward the age of being independent singles, looking out for our own well-being. Or maybe we all just like to screw around with more than just one person.
None of this answers my original question: where have all the single men gone? Anyone? Anyone?
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