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6 Persistent Myths About Black Love Debunked

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MYTH #3: Black women come with a lot of baggage.

In relationships, black women aren’t the only ones who come with baggage. Generally speaking, the older the person, the more baggage they are likely to have. The question is whether or not a person has learned from past relationships.

 

MYTH #4: Educated black women are least likely to get married.

The real story is that education increases the likelihood of marriage for both African-American men and women.

Tara Parker-Pope of The New York Times reported, “Among black women, 70 percent of college graduates are married by 40, whereas only about 60 percent of black high school graduates are married by that age.”

Black men follow the same trend. In 2008, 76 percent of black men with a college degree married by age 40, in contrast to the 63 percent of black men with just a high school diploma.

Furthermore,  Toldson points out black women with college degrees are more likely to marry than white females who never finished high school.

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