Sociology 2202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Asian Americans
16 Apr 2016
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Sociology of aging chapter 5 textbook notes. More so for men lending an attractive aura to being a single person. Traumatic well educated women of 35 had only a 5% chance of marrying. 1991 the number of eligible american men outnumbered single women, a result of the smaller cohort following the baby boom. This left men at the end of the baby boom to compete for mates from a smaller pool of women roughly two years younger than themselves. I am single more canadians than ever before are choosing to live alone and liking it. Flying solo more women are deciding that marriage is not inevitable, that they can lead a fulfilling life as a single. 65 and over, the proportion that are single has remained fairly stable (about. 5%) the proportion of the population that is old has increased significantly so too have the absolute numbers of single elders.
