It may have worked as a plotline for “Sex and the City,” but according to new government figures, very few American women need fear being an “old maid.” Eighty-six percent of women marry by age 40, according to the National Center for Health Statistics which recently released revised data gathered in 2002. And those women are waiting longer than ever to wed — age 25 on average. More than 20 years ago, a Newsweek magazine article called “The Marriage Crunch” scared the bejesus out of many women by stating that if a white, college-educated woman hadn't married by age 30, she had a slim chance of ever tying the knot.
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Marriage thrives despite our evolving sex lives
