CNN - Aug 23 - There are 96M people in the US who have no spouse. 43% of Americans over 18 are single, and 61% of them have never said 'I do.' ~46% of all households nationwide are maintained by a single person. More than half of the unmarried Americans are women. And for every 100 single women, there are 88 unmarried men available. There were 904 dating services available as of 2002, employing ~4,300 people to help the single folks find each other and the companies collected $489M that year. FULL ARTICLE @ CNN