Why we are being outbred: 2 in 1

[Zephyr]

No country for single women - shortage of men in New Zealand

Wellington - Single women have a problem finding a husband or partner in New Zealand - they outnumber men.

There are 35,000 more women in the prime marrying age group of 20 to 45, according to Statistics New Zealand and the situation is so bad that a 32-year-old Kiwi woman has as much chance of finding a partner her age as an 82-year-old.

"The reason being the 82-year-old men are dead and the 32-year-old men aren't there," according to international demographer Bernard Salt, who has studied what he calls the "man drought" in New Zealand and Australia.

"Young Kiwis in their mid to late-20s leave the country, but it's mostly the women who come back," he said, noting that New Zealand suffered the same male shortage as Mexico.

"While Mexican men of that age are in America, Kiwi men are in Australia, London, Dubai," Salt said.

More: http://www.topnews.in/no-country-single-women-shortage-men-new-zealand-284650

[Zephyr]

More men in New Zealand are having vasectomies than just about anywhere else in the world, and one Auckland University researcher wants to know why.

At 18 per cent of all men, 25 per cent of all married men, and a leg-crossing 55 per cent of 40-49 year-olds, New Zealand's vasectomy rate towers above places such as the United States, where just 7 per cent of men have had vasectomies.

Auckland PhD psychology student Gareth Terry now wants to talk to some of those New Zealand men and find out what prompted them to go under the knife.

Terry told NZPA he was curious as to why, given the good Kiwi bloke stereotype, so many were willing to be sterilised.

"The traditional blokey bloke is not interested in stuff that's related to reproduction, children, all that sort of thing, but yet we seem to have this quite high rate, so I'm very keen to tap into that a little bit more and see how much of that traditional idea is a myth."

More: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=177651