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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Pepper Schwartz is professor of sociology at the University of Washington and the author of many books, the latest of which is "The Normal Bar." She is the love and relationship ambassador for AARP and writes the Naked Truth column for AARP.org. She is also a senior fellow at the Council on Contemporary Families, a nonprofit organization that gathers research on American families. The opinions in this commentary are solely those of the author.
1 posted on 10/16/2014 9:54:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind; MeganC

Ping Megan Dear for your reading.


2 posted on 10/16/2014 9:59:28 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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We are worried that if women delay or forgo marriage, the all-important family unit will suffer.

The naked truth is this lady is a big part of the problem.

3 posted on 10/16/2014 9:59:28 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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A lot of women can’t find guys to offer to marry them.


4 posted on 10/16/2014 10:01:48 AM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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The reason there are so many single women is because most guys would rather not get married - for many obvious reasons.


5 posted on 10/16/2014 10:03:39 AM PDT by aquila48
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I don’t think it matters why people make the choices they do. The reasonably predictable consequences of the choices matters to me. What I can do to flourish in the society created by those choices matters.


6 posted on 10/16/2014 10:03:43 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Feeling fine about the end of the world!)
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Societal wealth provides women with the luxury of being selfish. All people are intrinsically selfish and seek to put the comforts of self first and this is what women are now doing.

Women are placing themselves first in their lives. Feminists have told, cajoled, scolded and shamed women into putting themselves first and above all else. Women put themselves first ahead of anything that might interfere with their “right” to happiness, personal fulfillment. Nothing should get in the way of this. Nothing.

Of course this doesn't apply to all women, and of course, men are afflicted with the same human trait of selfishness, but for decades now women have been told to be self centered to the exclusion of all else, and we are now seeing the fruit of this.

7 posted on 10/16/2014 10:05:07 AM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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When you let someone drive your car anytime for free, why would someone want to buy it?


8 posted on 10/16/2014 10:06:19 AM PDT by struggle
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there is no reason to stay married to the pig when the court system will award you the bacon.


9 posted on 10/16/2014 10:08:21 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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About the author:

Pepper the Aging Baby Boomer Putita

She gets paid to teach people about what fun it's been being a childless slut for the last 5 decades.

Bet there's more then a couple of abortions left out of the story.

10 posted on 10/16/2014 10:08:57 AM PDT by Regulator
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When women have been told that even the very life of an innocent unborn child should not interfere with their own selfish pursuits, then you have a problem.


12 posted on 10/16/2014 10:09:32 AM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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I don't get it.

It's MEN who should avoid marriage at all costs.

17 posted on 10/16/2014 10:13:07 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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This will not turn out well for those women, I am in my mid 50’s and remember very well the beginning of the feminist movement, all those girls that bought into it are still single, lonely, and for the most part poor. Women my age nowadays are so desperate they will generally drop their pants on Hello.


28 posted on 10/16/2014 10:19:24 AM PDT by eyeamok
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the reason women aren’t married is the oppressive child support required of daddy if Mommy just takes off for no reason. We are talking prison — arrest for Daddy . Women get free lawyers. Men are wiped out ( not minority men). Any male with a brain steers totally away from marriage. Millions of women now adopt because no man will risk fatherhood. irrefutable truth.


29 posted on 10/16/2014 10:20:46 AM PDT by iowacornman
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I’m sure there will be tons of posts on this thread about how women are nasty, selfish, feminazi b****es who deserve to be single and all the wonderful, noble, perfect men of the world naturally do not want to marry such evil, inferior creatures. Blah, blah, blah.

The way I see it is, 1. More men are gay than women. Reduces the pool of men. 2. More men are criminals than women. Further reduces the pool. 3. Some men are not good marriage prospects because they are mama’s boys, or they don’t want to commit, or they abuse alcohol or drugs, or they are woman-beaters, or they don’t have jobs, etc., etc. 4. The remaining men who are nice guys with decent jobs and want to get married get snapped up by the most beautiful, desirable women. Men almost always marry up; women marry down. So a man who’s an “8” is going to be eagerly snapped up by a woman who’s a “10.” 5. As a result, lots of nice women who want to get married, but are not gorgeous, have a smaller pool of marriageable men from which to choose. It’s logical that some women are going to remain single. The odds are not in their favor.


31 posted on 10/16/2014 10:21:38 AM PDT by Nea Wood (Even Heaven has a gate.)
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If I was a woman and seeing this metrosexual, feminized males, and sissy cry babies to pick from, I would probably stay single.


33 posted on 10/16/2014 10:25:35 AM PDT by sport
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Answer, according to my daughters: because there are too many guys and not enough godly men. They’ve both found wonderful young men, but they’re few and far between.


34 posted on 10/16/2014 10:26:09 AM PDT by jagusafr (the American Trinity (Liberty, In G0D We Trust, E Pluribus Unum))
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I for one like my life and my career. Several guys said they’d prefer not to let me do that. So .......


36 posted on 10/16/2014 10:32:01 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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I’d have married young if I had found the right man. But no amount of dating or introductions brought him into my life until I was 31. We got married two years later. He’s my soul mate, and I’m glad it happened the way it did.


43 posted on 10/16/2014 10:48:55 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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The average obese American woman does less than FIVE MINUTES of cardiovascular excercise in A WHOLE YEAR.

That’s a real statistic.


44 posted on 10/16/2014 10:49:13 AM PDT by gaijin
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More than half of the population are poor and undereducated. For those it pays to be on the system and have kids for money out of wed lock.


50 posted on 10/16/2014 11:03:58 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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