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Fewer women are tying the knot these days.

Today, it's a root canal performed by the steady hands of Dr. Jones.

Dr Angela Jones.

Dentist, solo practitioner, 36 and single.

"I just think that the generations and times are changing. You know, we have more opportunities, women, and we're just taking advantage of it," Jones said.

She finished dental school in 2001.

She bought a car, a house and then bought this practice. All on her own.

"A lot of my friends are single, female, that have their own homes and businesses and so I think it's a positive change," she added.

And statistics show, she's becoming the norm among women, even the majority.

In 2005, 51 percent of U.S. women were living without a spouse, up from 49 percent in 2000 and 35 percent in 1950.

The trend is most common among African-American women, 70 percent of whom live without a significant other. Some 51 percent of Hispanic women live on their own while 45 percent of non-Hispanic white women and 40 percent of Asian women live the single life.

Jones isn't in a hurry to walk down the aisle or get a stone on that ring finger.

"School and job, they've always been my main focus. One day I hope to find a husband and have children, but right now, if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen," she says.