FOR LOVE OR MONEY

THE SAYING GOES THAT MANY MODERN BLACK WOMEN - AND PERHAPS WOMEN IN GENERAL - WANT THE THREE sixes: SIX-FIGURE INCOME, SIX FEET IN HEIGHT, AND SIX-PACK ABS. HOWEVER, DESIRE OFTEN COMES CRASHING DOWN TO EARTH WITH REALITY. ONLY 18% OF BLACK MEN EARN OVER $100,000 ANNUALLY AND OFTEN CHOOSE MATES FROM THEIR INCOME CIRCLE.

Popular culture and media continue to feature attractive, successful black women opining about being dissed and dismissed by black men. THESE BLACK "SWANS" (Strong Women Achievers, No Spouse) OFTEN WAIT UNTIL PAST AGE 30 TO GET MARRIED. WOMEN with the highest personal annual incomes are most likely to be married at 25-29 - with two glaring exceptions. In the rarified air of $100,000+ income, 93% of black women and virtually 100% of Latinas are single. By 30-34, things appear to even up Only 18% of the white and Asian women and 19% of the highest-earning black women have never been married at this age

Incompatibility

AN EVER-INCREASING NUMBER OF BLACK WOMEN, dissatisfied with their mating options among the opposite sex, are choosing to remain single ACCORDING TO ABC NEwS "NIGHTLINE," 42% of U.S. black women have never been married, double the number of white women who’ve never tied the knot

Separation

BLACK COUPLES HAVE THE HIGHEST DIVORCE RATE - 47.9%of any racial group. interracial couples are 200% more likely to divorce than other couples. with the advent of no-fault divorce, black men especially can be wiped out in a messy split

MORE THAN anY OTHER RACIAL GROUP, BLACK WOMEN, AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ECONOMIC TOTEM POLE, HAVE A NEGATIVE IMAGE OF SEEKING OUT MEN ONLY FOR THEIR MONEY, WHEN IN REALITY MOST BLACK WOMEN ARE MERELY SEEKING WHAT ALL WOMEN WANT: A MATE WHO CAN PROVIDE FOR HER AND THEIR CHILDREN.