Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: correll@brahms.udel.edu (Sharon J Correll) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Anger & Dating for the first time: Message-ID: Date: 23 Sep 90 07:22:33 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 41 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article sacg1198@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott A Cattanach) writes: >jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai) writes: > >>In article >>charlie@lindy.stanford.edu (Charlie Channel) writes: >>>In article >>djcl@contact.uucp (woody) writes: >>>>just in case i didn't get the numbers right, the unmarried M:F ratio (ages >>>>20-29) should be 108:100, ie. more M than F. >>> >I'm curious, do these numbers apply to the church as well or do they skew >somewhat in either direction if the non-Christians are removed? I have >no idea myself, an argument could probably be made in either direction. I'm no statistician, but I am SURE that there are more women in the church than men. In fact, I heard someone say recently that the most "unreached" group of people in this country are single men in their 20's and 30's. About the original writer's question, I think he has nothing to worry about. From where I sit, there are quite a few very nice, very "together" women in their 30's who would like to be married, and they don't have "psychological problems" either. The men are a different story. It seems to me that quite a few of the single men in their 30's are socially inept or immature, and lot of them are very nice and eligible but seem to have hangups about marriage and a fear of making a lifetime commitment. Those seem to be the two biggest categories. Then there are the guys that are so perfect they're not even worth looking at, because they want God to drop Miss Just-As-Perfect from the sky for them, and (I'll be less cynical here) the nice guys who just have other things going on in their lives and are too preoccupied to get into a relationship, and those that for one reason or another haven't found the right one yet. And on the mission field it's worse. I heard of a missionary center overseas that had 40 single women and 1 single man. -- ---\ Sharon Correll \--------------- ----\ University of Delaware \-------------- -----\ Academic Computing and Instructional Technology \------------- ------\ correll@sun.acs.udel.edu \------------