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lhe adjusted figures show that about 33.5% of Rappahannock County’s male population above age 14 is unmarried„ as against 21.3% of the female population over 14.
Nationally, according to the report, 26.7% of the men over 14 and 20.9% of the women are single.
The figures do not include persons who have been widowed or divorced. They refer only to those who have never been married
The marriage rate steps up sharply as the young folk graduate from their teens into their 20’s.
Eventually, nearly everyone gets married. An estimate by a Census Bureau Statistician shows that as fe>w as 4% of the men and 3% of the women in their late 20's are likely to enter middle age without having been married.
However, in most parts of the country today, there is a temporary marriage squeeze because of the shortage of males at the normal marrying ages.
It all dates back to the 1940's, with the low birth rate during the war and the baby boom that followed. As a result, for many i young women bom just after the jwar and now ready for marriage, | there are not enough men slightly older than themselves available. ! In Rappahannock County this I year, there will be approximately j 2 3 0 women in the prime marrying ages, 18 to 21. As for the men, who marry between 20 and 23 for the most part, there ! will be 240 in the local area.
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