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: A Yale University study found that just 42% of Black women are married, and a variety of high profile news networks such as CNN and ABC picked up that figure and ran with it. But researchers Ivory A. Toldson of Howard University and Bryant Marks of Morehouse College question the accuracy of this finding. “The often-cited figure of 42% of Black women never marrying includes all Black women 18 and older,” Toldson told the Root.com. “ Raising this age in an analysis eliminates age groups we don't really expect to be married and gives a more accurate estimate of true marriage rates.” Toldson and Marks found that 75% of Black women marry before they turn age 35 after examining census data from 2005 to 2009. 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.