Study: Nearly 40 percent of women never married

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Nearly 40 percent of women have never been married, and fewer are in a first marriage, according to a new government report.

The study released Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics is based on 22,682 in-person interviews from 2006 to 2010 with men and women (not couples) ages 15 to 44. Among the 12,279 women studied, the percentage of never-marrieds rose to 38 percent from 33 percent in 1995.

The highest percentage of women who have never married was among blacks (55 percent), followed by U.S.-born Hispanics (49 percent), Asians (39 percent) and whites (34 percent).

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