Bachelors seem to be overtaking our
population! It is estimated that in America today, 18,022,000 men are
'without women' – that includes bachelors, widowers and divorced
men. What is surprising to me is that 81.9% of those unattached men –
a total of 14,768,000 are bachelors. Just under 12% are widows and
the remaining 6% are divorced. These statistics show that around 1 in
4 men in the United States are choosing to live alone. It is
definitely not a case of there being a shortage of women because
single women outweigh single men. In an attempt to discover what
compels men to live a bachelor life, the study highlighted a number
of facts about unattached men.
First of all, if a man is still single
when he turns 35 years of age then the chances are that he is never
going to marry. Men may continue to talk of a desire to marry, but
evidence suggests that men of 35 years and older are unconsciously
rejecting the idea of marriage because men who really want to get
married will usually find their mate by their late twenties. However,
it is not always a case of choosing to remain unattached, the growing
mobility of our society as a whole means that young men who are
regularly uprooted by their careers or by military service will find
it difficult to meet a wife.
While many men claim to be confirmed bachelors who are happy to live alone, it has been suggested that
they are in the minority as a large portion of unmarried men spend a
fair amount of their free time trying to find a partner. In addition
to this, single men are just as interested in sex as married men, but
less inclined to seek commitment or companionship. Men approach
finding a life partner very differently from women. Females are
likely to rush towards marriage while males approach it much more
slowly and move towards it generally.
