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SINGLE WOMEN

Topics: Husbands; Lifestyle; Marriage; Singleness; Spouses

References: Genesis 2:18; Judges 21:14; Matthew 19:11; 1 Corinthians 7:32–35

Fifty-one percent of women lived without a spouse in 2006. According to a January 2007 article in The New York Times, this is the first time in American history that single women outnumbered married women.

That percentage was up from 35 percent in 1950 and 49 percent in 2000.

—Sam Roberts, “51 Percent of Women Are Now Living without a Spouse,” The New York Times (January 16, 2007)