[SuziQ]

Regarding why men aren't looking to settle down, it's as my dear old Daddy used to say, "Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?" Women aren't demanding anything of men anymore, so why should the men settle down and deliver? If a guy knows he can satisfy himself without any sort of commitment, then it will take some real lightning bolt to force that commitment; usually a pregnant girlfriend who refuses to have an abortion, expecting marriage, instead.

Women have forgotten the power they used to have, because the feminists convinced them that they didn't have any power, but that they every right to sleep around, 'just like the guys do'. It has made for a sorry situation, indeed.

[misterrob]

The problem with the model you refer to is that making a man wait until after marriage for sex is no guarantee he would stay anyway.

One thing to get him, quite another to keep him.

[rabscuttle385]

Regarding why men aren't looking to settle down, it's as my dear old Daddy used to say, "Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?"

Your entire post took the words straight out of my mouth...or straight from my fingers, since I'm typing this on a keyboard.

[Centurion2000]

If a guy knows he can satisfy himself without any sort of commitment, then it will take some real lightning bolt to force that commitment; usually a pregnant girlfriend who refuses to have an abortion, expecting marriage, instead.

Or a sense of honor or morals perhaps.

[Little Bill]

Correct, as usual. What man in his right mind wants to marry a 40 something looser woman. People make choices, right and wrong, they shouldn’t snivel when they make the wrong one.

[ConservativeMind]

I beg to differ. I would say that most women do demand something of men, and that is a better paycheck then theirs.

If they were looking for character, you’d tend to find that in a solid church setting.