Monday, August 10, 2009

Marriage down among educated black women

Does the following make sense to anyone?

Brueckner said the growing divide may be due to a lack of acceptable partners for highly educated black women.

"They are less likely than black men to marry outside their race, and, compared to whites and black men, they are least likely to marry a college-educated spouse," he suggested.


I read the above as: Highly educated black women are least likely to marry a college-educated spouse.

Does that make sense? If true why would educated black women not be more likely to marry educated black men? Hit me on e-mail if you have insight into this.