As Seniors Live Longer They Find 'Love Expectancy' Also Grows

MC CLATCHY NEWSPAPERS -- June 26 -- Seniors are the fastest-growing users of Internet dating services and the fastest growing group of cohabiters. Longer healthy life expectancy is part of the explanation. According to Mark Brooks, a consultant and newsletter writer who tracks the Internet-dating industry, the number of seniors joining online dating services has risen at double-digit rates annually since 2003, the most of any age group. According to Susan Brown, a demographer at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, cohabiting among older people increased 50% from 2000 to 2006. The older they get, the more senior men favor younger women, according to researchers. Good men are hard to find. Unmarried women aged 65 to 74 outnumber men of that age by more than two to one. Mark Brooks said seniors' personal ads often were deceptive about sex and commitment: "Women lie about wanting casual relationships. Men lie about wanting long-term ones." FULL ARTICLE @ THE STATE