Study Finds Women Slower to Wed, and Divorce Easing

By: Sabrina Travernise, New York Times

WASHINGTON — Nearly half of all women between the ages of 25 and 29 have never been married, up from about a quarter of that age group in 1986, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Census Bureau.

The report, which highlighted shifting patterns of marriage and divorce since the 1940s, was based on decades of census data and a survey of about 55,000 adults in 2009.

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