Dr. Towanna Freeman has a lot to say about why Black People aren’t getting married. In an interview with AOL Black Voices, the leading black news website in America, she was quoted as saying this:
“According to the U.S. Census, 42% of African-Americans are getting married, in comparison to 61% of Caucasians.
There are four contributing factors for this current gap: the evolution of the black professional woman in the workplace; the increased numbers of incarcerated black males; decreased numbers of black males in college compared to black women; and the increased number of single mothers as head of household.
For example, black women are more likely to marry men of equal or greater education and money earning potential. Finding a prospective groom can be a challenge if the black male to black female ratio is 1 in 6 like in many major cities. The workplace and academia are the most probable location to make a dating connection. These are places you spend most of your day and you interact with the prospective and get to know them in a much better way. However, if the number of black males in those environments is too low, the odds are slim for the black love connection. This is one explanation for the increased number of interracial marriages in the U.S.”
