The decline of Asian marriage: Asia's lonely hearts

Do these countries recognize and count their lesbians? Is it socially acceptable for lesbians to live together? If not, that would go a long way to account for this growth in single women.

20 seconds of Googling convinced me there's no consensus on how many women are lesbians, nor did the article say how many women are single. So it's hard to know whether that could explain the whole bulge.

the hell does this have to do with hackernews?