"In 2009, for the first time in American history, single women outnumbered married women." Perhaps even more strikingly, the number of adults younger than 34 who had never married was up to 46 percent, rising 12 percentage points in less than a decade. For women under 30, the likelihood of being married has become astonishingly small: Today, only around 20 percent of Americans are wed by age 29, compared to the nearly 60 percent in 1960. During the lead-up to the 2014 midterms, Fox News pundit Jesse Watters opined that single women "depend on government because they're not depending on their husbands. They need things like contraception, health care, and they love to talk about equal pay." Conservative pundit Phyllis Schlafly went so far as to claim in 2012 that President Obama was working to keep women unmarried by giving away so many social services to them. "President Obama is simply trying to promote more dependency on government handouts because he knows that is his constituency, " Schlafly said.
