It's been quite a while since I featured some "Stop the presses!" research from one of our outstanding academics, so here's some good stuff:
In places where young women outnumber young men, research shows the hemlines rise but the marriage rates don't because the young men feel less pressure to settle down as more women compete for their affections.
But when those men reach their 30s, the reverse is true and proportionately more older men are married in areas where women outnumber men.
Daniel Kruger, a University of Michigan researcher who studies evolution and how it relates to contemporary behavior, looked at the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States to test his hypothesis on how the balance between women and men affects marital patterns. Results showed that men aged 20-24 are more likely to cruise than to commit if they live in an area with more women than men.
Young men play around and older men settle down? Who knew?
Comments
Leo:
Be nice to be able to REVERSE that for more than a few reasons...LOL!
(if we only had the stamina)
;)