A number of 105,000 girls, mostly residing in Tehran and the central cities of Iran, are confirmed bachelorettes, Ardeshir Garavand, designer of the center for social surveillance affiliated to the Interior Ministry said here on Sunday.
Moreover, there are 36,000 confirmed bachelors in the country, IRNA news agency quoted him as saying.
The active age of marriage is 39 and women older than 39 are considered confirmed bachelorettes.
“In absence of detailed and long-term planning in different administrations over the past decades, the number of single-person households are growing and has been doubled since the last 20 years”.
Immorality is the result of inequity between the population of men and women which happens when men are forced to immigrate in order to find a proper job, he explained.
“Unemployment and migrations, that affects the social balance, are serious elements in occurrence of crime and social damages”.
Currently, three million families consisting 14 million people are living on the outskirts of the cities nationwide, Garavand said, noting financial sources are not available for constructing proper houses for them.
Source:Tehrantimes