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Senior Citizens Seeking a Partner This Valentine's
Find Few Others Interested
 Feb. 14, 2007 - If you are a senior citizens, or
even just age 30 or older, and looking for love on this Valentine's Day,
you best not hold your breath until it happens. Only two percent of
unattached seniors citizens are looking for a partner. Large numbers of
single Americans are not actively looking for relationships and even
significant numbers of those looking for partners are not that active on
the dating scene, says a new report by the Pew Research Center.
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At first glance, the survey results in "Not Looking
for Love" suggest ample targets for Cupid among American adults. While
the majority of American adults (56% or 113 million people) are not in
the dating market (they are married or living as married), the number of
potential romance-seekers is still huge. Fully 43% of adults (87 million
people) say they are single. These data generally align with findings
from a 50,000-household survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau in
2004.
In general, marriage patterns have ebbed and flowed
over time. Census data show fairly consistent patterns throughout the
first half of the 20th century with a swing towards marriage in the
1950s and 1960s. Marriage rates then receded as the ranks of both the
widowed and the never-married increased.
Only 16% of single Americans say they are hunting
for a partner. That group represents 7% of the entire adult population.
While a sizable segment of the population is
single, about a quarter of unmarried Americans (26% or about 23 million
adults) say they are in committed romantic relationships. Single men are
more likely than single women to report being so situated.
Yet among the uncommitted, relatively few say they
are in the market for relationships.
A look at who's committed.
Despite the challenges of finding a mate, a
majority of American adults have found marriage partners or long-term
relationships. And two-thirds (68%) of those in marriages or in
households living as married said they had been in those relationships
for longer than five years. Overall:
● 47% of all adult Americans - about 95 million
people - have been married or in a committed relationship for more than
five years.
● 26% of all American adults - about 53 million
people - are not married and are not looking for a romantic partner.
● 21% of all adult Americans - about 42 million
people - are married or in a committed relationship for less than five
years.
● 7% of all adult Americans - about 14 million
people - are not married or in a committed relationship and are actively
looking for romantic partners.
Some key demographic dimensions of each group are
shown in the table below:
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