Would it surprise you to learn 65 per cent of British black Caribbean women are single?

Marcia Dixon’s new book highlights the huge gender imbalance in the black Church, affecting a catch-all group of millennial, middle-aged and mature women who wish to be married

Attend any black majority church on a Sunday and you will find that women outnumber men by at least five to one; sometimes it can be as high as eight to one. In 2018, Sociologist Val Bernard from the Seventh-day Adventist Church, released a study which showed that 65 per cent of British black Caribbean women are single, 59 per cent have never married and 59 percent of black Caribbean British families are headed by a single, often female parent.