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: On the surface, such stories seem to be concerned about Black women in search of love, but these media reports have fueled stereotypes about Black people. By suggesting that too few Black men are available to wed, news stories on Black marriage have done little more than predict doom and gloom for Black women who hope to marry. In reality, Black marriage isn’t reserved for the likes of Barack and Michelle Obama. Analysis of census data and other figures has debunked much of the misinformation the media has reported about the Black marriage rate. Black Women Don’t Marry
The barrage of news reports about the Black marriage rate gives the impression that Black women’s chances of walking down the aisle are bleak. 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.