Posted on 01/11/2013 5:39:57 PM PST by ReformationFan
Fewer young men in the US want to get married than ever, while the desire for marriage is rising among young women, according to the Pew Research Center.
Pew recently found that the number of women 18-34 saying that having a successful marriage is one of the most important things rose from 28 percent to 37 percent since 1997. The number of young adult men saying the same thing dropped from 35 percent to 29 percent in the same time.
Pew’s findings have caught the attention of one US writer who maintains that feminism, deeply entrenched in every segment of the culture, has created an environment in which young men find it more beneficial to simply opt out of couple-dom entirely.
Suzanne Venker’s article, “The War on Men,” which appeared on the website of Fox News in late November, has become a lodestone for feminist writers who have attacked her position that the institution of marriage is threatened, not enhanced, by the supposed gains of the feminist movement over the last 50 years.
“Where have all the good (meaning marriageable) men gone?” is a question much talked about lately in the secular media, Venker says, but her answer, backed up by statistics, is not to the liking of mainstream commentators influenced by feminism.
She points out that for the first time in US history, the number of women in the workforce has surpassed the number of men, while more women than men are acquiring university degrees.
“The problem? This new phenomenon has changed the dance between men and women,” Venker wrote. With feminism pushing them out of their traditional role of breadwinner, protector and provider – and divorce laws increasingly creating a dangerously precarious financial prospect for the men cut loose from marriage – men are simply no longer finding
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Nooooo, I'm still a girl =)!!
“I won’t get married. Screw that. If there was a roller coaster where fully 50% of the cars went flying off the tracks, and the man was usually horribly mangled, lost his guns via a TPO, and who’s house was stolen .... but the woman landed on pillows and then found a winning lottery ticket... I would N E V E R get on that ride.”
And the sad thing for today’s women is that you likely would have made them a GREAT HUSBAND for one of them, but they used the power of government to drive you away from that option (same with most of my friends).
That is so true. When I read it, it brought back childhood memories of "our gang". We consisted of both boys and girls. However, back then, we weren't allowed to stay in, we had to go out and play.....just be back by dinner time, unless you called ahead and asked permission to eat over a friends house.
We were all out, all day, together. Riding our bikes, roller skating, skateboarding, walking, eating at someones house, etc.
I rarely see kids out playing anymore.
It's not an excuse when it's a fact.
(Disclaimer - I am a woman, wife, and mother.)
The only other defense I would have had was my two kids who were both in college at the time. Neither of them would have bought the story that I had abused her, and I think she knew that.
Hey Shimmer1, nice to see you!
Happy New Year!
But today? When the kids are older? My youngest (married with kids herself) now understands what was going on a lot better. We've kept our close relationship.
You can't fool the kids over the long term.
/johnny
It most certainly is. I've known/seen plenty of women out there, whom after 20+ years of marriage want out. They think they could "do better", be on their own, be their own woman,but yet want to find a "better man" to take care of them.
Of course, they cannot be all these things without their ex-husbands footing the bill so they can be "independent".
That is one of my MOST favorite discussions!
I miss some parts of the male-female bonding relationship... but not enough to go through that again.
I'll just keep this house, this time.
/johnny
Yep, our parents during the summer basically kicked us out of the house and made us play, only to come back for lunch, and then go out again and return for dinner.
Nowadays, people think it’s nuts to let their kids out all by themselves, and that’s even with them having cell phones that they can use.....we didn’t even have those back then.
A generalized way of describing modern divorce in America, is that basically, looking at a family, husband, wife, children, home, and lifestyle, schools and just everything that makes a marriage, home and family, well the woman has the power to just kick the man out of that structure.
The father is only there as long as the female desires it.
If the tables were turned, and the woman was faced with losing literally everything, then they would not be filing for divorce so casually.
Yay, another celibate, but a boy!
In real life, I am the only celibate one I know. A lot of people think it’s “lonely”. I say no, I’m alone, not lonely.
I was lonely and miserable while still in the dating life.
Now, I am alone and no longer lonely and miserable.
Funny how that works.
On the side of a mountain, one night, during a blizzard, all alone, after a slip-fall that took a kidney and my spleen and almost took my life... Jesus and I had a chat.
I'm never alone.
/johnny
We either used pay phones, or a friends house phone.
Kids today certainly aren’t the same kids we used to be. We were more independent......by force, lol.
These kids I see now are TOTALLY dependent on their parents or their little electronics for entertainment. NO interaction with other little ones, except through “play dates”, which is still one on one interaction. Boy w/ boy and girl w/ girl.
Whatever happened to the “group”?
“Out banging the sluts that give it up on the 1st date? Just a guess”
Hey! Just because they’ll “give it up” doesn’t mean they are sluts!
At least that is what I tell them....
Excellent point. To take it even further, even if the woman had to pay 1/2 of everything, divorce would not be so casual.
I didn’t mean “alone” alone. I meant living with, or dating with the opposite sex.
Hehehe....and the dumb broads lap up every word!
“Sure, I’ll call you......”
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