Posted on 04/23/2017 8:43:56 PM PDT by BJ1
Declining marriage rates among millenials are a matter of some unease in the conservative policy world, as can be seen in W. Bradford Wilcox’s recent article. This trend may be partly due to an increasing imbalance in the number of marriageable men and women at all levels of society. For example, women have attended and graduated from college at higher rates than men for some years now, and in 2010 women receiving doctoral degrees outnumbered men for the first time.
The overall cultural sense is that women are gaining and men are falling behind, as Hanna Rosin argues in The End of Men. Women regularly take to the internet either to bemoan the lack of marriageable men or to tut-tut at women who weren’t smart enough to marry early (see Princeton Mom and Camille Paglia). Furthermore, as described in Charles Murray’s Coming Apart, the state of marriage among the non-college-educated is even more dire than among the college-educated, so these women probably would not have found a spouse even if they had decided not to pursue higher education.
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This article touches on some of the problems for the ladies. Namely there aren't enough marriagable men to go around. That sounds like discrimination against men to me. Sure you might want Joe to fix your car, but not as a husband. Also the article points out men are failing, women are succeeding. And she concludes the more educated women are going to be unmarried in greater and greater numbers. I conclude that women who have a college degree can't bring themselves to marry a blue collar guy in sufficient numbers that would allow them to get married and have children.
I find this article fascinating that women are spending time and effort to make it less likely they will get married and have a family.
Ask Laz......
This trend may be partly due to an increasing imbalance in the number of marriageable men and women at all levels of society. For example, women have attended and graduated from college at higher rates than men for some years now, and in 2010 women receiving doctoral degrees outnumbered men for the first time.
So they are accepting as a given, as a fact of life not to be questioned, that women will marry someone with an equal or greater formal education than themselves. The entire premise of this article is that women cannot abide a husband who does not have a certain level of education/income. In other words, they are accepting as engraved in stone, the “law” that women must marry up.
“This trend may be partly due to an increasing imbalance in the number of marriageable men and women at all levels of society. **** For example, women have attended and graduated from college at higher rates than men for some years now, and in 2010 women receiving doctoral degrees outnumbered men for the first time.****”
How is this an imbalance or a shortage of men?
Is it down to the lake I fear?
Red pill.
Yeah, and guys who go ski-diving or skate-boarding on weekends (overwhelmingly male activities) are likewise wasting valuable time they could have spent looking for young wives.
Fascinating... not.
The article is pretty pointless, because its sole solution is "kiss it up to God."*
Regards,
*Perhaps this expression is unclear outside Roman Catholic circles: It's what the nuns who taught us in elementary / high school used to say when we came to them with a problem (heartache, etc.): Offer up your pain to God as an offering of love, etc.
Didn't really help most of the time.
That article basically said everything these arrogant single women should do to cope with no husbands....except of course, to see the value in the decent men all around them.
Thumbs down.
That article basically said everything these arrogant single women should do to cope with no husbands....except of course, to see the value in the decent men all around them.
Thumbs down.
>>>How is this an imbalance or a shortage of men?<<<
Like the prior poster said, it assumes women won’t marry down in terms of career/income/education. My whole life I’ve been told women are just as capable as men. The women are living that out and becoming doctors and lawyers. And yet somehow the women’s success means more and more men are screwing up and not marriageable. Color me confused.
“guys who go ski-diving or skate-boarding on weekends (overwhelmingly male activities) are likewise wasting valuable time they could have spent looking for young wives”
Doesn’t work that way for guys. Every passing year is better for us, money piles up. Hell, we even get better looking as we age.
“Like the prior poster said, it assumes women won’t marry down in terms of career/income/education.”
Women who reject 95% of all males. So get a cat I guess. I also don’t care about anorexics who refuse a slice of pizza. Freaking starve then.
Nonetheless: Such activities delay marriage. (Didn't say that they worsen the guy's overall chances.)
Regards,
“Such activities delay marriage.”
Getting married is arguably a dangerous idea for a man. But a male being in a hurry is always bad.
I’ve seen several articles over the past few years bemoaning the fact that now that sex is readily available from so man women, men don’t see a “need” to get married. They settle into the single life and some of it looks like a regression to their teens/twenties “fun” years. Except it goes on and on.
I’ve seen some “studies” that say men feel threatened dating/marrying a woman who earns more, has more education. I think it goes the other way too - women seeking a bread winner for their kids. I’ve known few women who are disdainful of non “status” men (blue collar). Most women I’ve known want someone reliable, honest, dedicated to supporting a family. My info is just anecdotal on that score.
I just think it’s more complicated than your post. Many layers and contributing factors - not just “women are shallow and stupid”.
Dragging one's feet is likewise inadvisable.
Believe me: I know of such a case. A guy who went dirtbiking and spearhunting and ... for twenty years. He regressed - mentally, emotionally - to the level of a young teen.
A year ago, one of his dogs died... He is still posting photos of the dog now, a year later.
Regards,
As a father of three young women who are in the “Ready to Marry” zone, I can tell you that the vast majority of young men in their 20’s just aren’t mature enough to assume leadership of a home.
Only just saw your posting: How true! It infantilizes men.
Regards,
I ran into a guy who is 44. He told me his wife didn’t want kids and he did. After awhile he said to himself if I’m not going have kids, I don’t want to stay married to this $%$@ and I wan to bang other women.
I couldn’t resist asking him how that is working out for him. He said fantastic. Sometimes he just has to stay home for the night. He’s getting so much for different women. I don’t understand his mentality of not wanting to just fine one good woman. But the women are giving it up. 60 million American women and 50 million American men have a STD right now.
As for women are shallow and stupid, it was not my intention to post anything that comes across that way.
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