[llama hunter]

makes sense on one level, 65 per cent seems high, and I wonder what the stats are for men not married by age 30,
but by age 30, I think sheer demographics puts more females than males in the population starting at that age group which of course increases as men and women age, [I mean my granddaddy loved the nursing home because he was one of the few males, plus he was tall and had a full head of hair, well he was a primo catch and he loved all the ladies attention, oops too bad for my evil step grandmother who was in the hospital portion of the home......LOL] since males have a tendency to engage in higher risk activities which means more males die before age 30 than females, then you add the recurring phenomenon that men over 30 are chasing females under 30, especially if they are looking for trophy wives and/or breeding material

[CzarNicky]

I have always said that if you have to explain the joke it loses its effect but here goes.

Original statement: It said in effect that if a woman that married by the time she's 30, she has a 65% chance of NEVER being married. At 35 years old, the likelyhood that she will never marry jumps to 90%

My contention was that if she is already married by 30 how can she have a 65% chance of never being married?

[qam1]

but by age 30, I think sheer demographics puts more females than males in the population starting at that age group which of course increases as men and women age,

But you are forgetting many women are content to be the "Other Woman" which skews the ratio of available women to men right back down.