Title: Black Marriage: Four Myths Busted by the Facts
Headings: The Top 4 Myths About Black Marriage
The Top 4 Myths About Black Marriage
Black Women Don’t Marry
Educated Black Women Have It Harder
Rich Black Men Marry Out
Black Men Don’t Earn as Much as Black Women

Content: Plus, Black women in small towns have higher marriage rates than white women in urban centers such as New York and Los Angeles, Toldson remarked in The New York Times . Educated Black Women Have It Harder
Getting a college degree is the worst thing a Black woman can do if she wants to get married, right? Not exactly. News stories about Black marriage often mention that more Black women pursue higher education than Black men—by a 2-to-1 ratio, according to some estimates. What these articles leave out is that white women also earn college degrees more than white men do, and this gender imbalance hasn’t hurt white women’s chances at matrimony. What’s more, Black women who finish college actually improve their chances of marrying rather than lower them. “Among Black women, 70% of college graduates are married by 40, whereas only about 60% of Black high school graduates are married by that age,” Tara Parker-Pope of The New York Times reported. The same trend is at play for Black men. In 2008, 76% of Black men with a college degree married by age 40. In contrast, only 63% of Black men with just a high school diploma tied the knot.