In the year 2012, the sex ratio was about 96 men for every 100 women in the United States. Why is this important to the study of marriage and the family?
a. People will get married younger if there are more men than women in a population
b. When there is a vastly uneven ratio of men and women, homosexual relationships are more common.
c. The sex ratio indicates who will get married and when.
d. A high rate of heterosexual marriage presumes matching numbers of males and females in a population.
d
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