Looks like this blog post is each week late. From Sep 20 through to the 26 in 2009 it actually was National Singles month. Within the 1980s, the Buckeye Singles Council of Kansas started this observance which drops from the third full few days of September. It was started initially to
… acknowledge that numerous single Americans dont recognize using the word “unmarried” because they’re parents, have actually associates or are widowed.
Listed below are some present fascinating facts and data on singles in America:
- nowadays there are 95.9 million unmarried people in the U.S. who’re 18 years or earlier. This makes up 43 percent of adults. (from 2008)
- 53 per cent among these singles are ladies
- 61 per cent of those singles have never been married prior to. 24 percent have been separated and another 15 % happened to be widowed.
- Seniors (65+) account fully for 15.8 million of xxx singles which 16 % having not ever been hitched.
- 11.6 million of adult singles tend to be parents coping with their children, 9.8 million are women.
Your full fact sheet throughout the Unmarried and solitary People in america month, check out the U.S. Census Bureau.