The article is based on statistics that define "adult women" as age 15 and up. So, all those teenagers living with their parents (or in dorms) still count. But to me, a 16 year old living at home isn't quite the same thing (in terms of showing a social change) as a 40 year old woman who has chosen to remain single.
Also, you'd really have to take out those adult women who are living, by choice, with another woman. I mean, lesbians are invisible here. And yet, again, not quite the same thing.
So, if you deduct all teenage women (and I think you should) and all women who are happily partnered (to another woman) . . . you're still not at a majority of adult women living without a male spouse. Not yet.
Also. Not to rain on anything (because I share many of your sentiments), but many many of the adult women I know who have remained single? Did not do so by choice, at all. The pressure on men to marry is much less than it used to be.
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Date: 2007-01-17 05:26 am (UTC)The article is based on statistics that define "adult women" as age 15 and up. So, all those teenagers living with their parents (or in dorms) still count. But to me, a 16 year old living at home isn't quite the same thing (in terms of showing a social change) as a 40 year old woman who has chosen to remain single.
Also, you'd really have to take out those adult women who are living, by choice, with another woman. I mean, lesbians are invisible here. And yet, again, not quite the same thing.
So, if you deduct all teenage women (and I think you should) and all women who are happily partnered (to another woman) . . . you're still not at a majority of adult women living without a male spouse. Not yet.
Also. Not to rain on anything (because I share many of your sentiments), but many many of the adult women I know who have remained single? Did not do so by choice, at all. The pressure on men to marry is much less than it used to be.