Posted on 11/01/2013 12:45:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A new survey suggests that marriage is actually more important to men than it is to women. In fact, just since last year, the number of women who say their definition of success is not linked to marriage (or relationships at all) has nearly doubled.
According to the third “Professional Women Report” (h/t the Atlantic), a survey of over 1,000 male and female professionals released yesterday by LinkedIn and Citi, 9 percent of women say that marriage and relationships do not factor into their consideration of success, compared to 5 percent last year.
It turns out that men are more likely than women to equate marriage with success: a quarter of women polled said that being in a “strong, loving relationship” would constitute “having it all,” and the distinction of being married was unnecessary — a position that only 14 percent of men agree with. 79 percent of men equate “having it all” with being in a “strong, loving marriage,” versus 66 percent of women.
Of course, this could also just be further evidence that men tend to have less nuanced perspectives on "having it all," because they're never really asked about it.
Like Hell!
WHo would have thunk it, guys don’t like sluts
If a man wants children marriage is the only way to at least have a shot at having some say in raising him. So this makes sense to me.
That say, along with half of all he owns and half of all he earns can vanish at the bang of a gavel.
I know one who works as a GS (Federal gov) who went to a dating site for the sole purpose to find a willing sperm donor so she could be a Mom.
This DC/Balt area has the highest % of unmarried women in the country.
If something happened to Mrs Clamper ... I would never ever get married again
I go by the study I once found, Single women live longest followed down the reasonable path to single men having the shortest life expectancy.
Just a quick google revealed this (divorced/single mothers are in the single men range):
One of the strongest recurrent findings in this literature on marital status and health has been the presence of gender differences in the relationship between marital status and health outcomes (Umberson, 1992). Being married is associated with greater protection for men compared to women, therefore gender stratified analysis have become commonplace in much of this work (Kaplan & Kronick, 2006; Scafato et al., 2008). Various explanations have been proposed
“...in raising him”
Freudian slip?
Single mothers are the biggest social liability in this country in terms of poverty, crime, depression, etc. I’m sure there are exceptions to this rule, but if more women married their child’s father...we’d be a lot lot lot better off as a country.
Problem is every generation is marketed or sold on the idea of more and more. Men and women both believe they deserve EVERYTHING out of life and no one learns their own limits and what they truly desire. So they aim for everything and end-up finding out their limits.
To me it’s family and happiness. Career, wealth and materialism are fleeting. It’s impractical not to have some focus on the basics of those things, but to be sold media into a lifestyle is sheepish problem we’re presented with.
No, traditionally if the sex is indeterminate you use the masculine form.
Having said that, it does seem pretty clear that women have bought into the Liberal lie, hook, line, and sinker. They don't need marriage. They don't need men and they don't need children. Abortion is their religious practice and self actualization is their god.
What this survey doesn't measure, and can't measure is the misery, unhappiness, and destroyed lives in the wake of these women. Yeah, they have bought into the lie of Liberalism, but at what cost, to themselves and others?
True. I wonder if this can last forever.
Hell, a lot of women just see marriage as an investment plan nowadays. Find a dupe with a job, put in a few years with him to keep up appearances, pop out a kid or two, and then you have a nice financial nest egg. Then they can go and look for their “true love”, now that they have that out of the way.
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New York Magazine always drives my AV software bonkers for some reason.
I think many Hollywood women have pretty well set that example desiring the status of motherhood (think: baby bump) and then having children with absolutely no interest in marriage.
Hell, a lot of women just see marriage as an investment plan nowadays. Find a dupe with a job, put in a few years with him to keep up appearances, pop out a kid or two, and then you have a nice financial nest egg. Then they can go and look for their “true love”, now that they have that out of the way.
Interesting... My experience through watching others is that she finds the “bad Boy” who excites her and titillates her ego. Pops out a couple of kids and then goes looking for a well-paid man, (Geek), to pay for the kids and her until they are grown.
If he’s lucky he might gets ‘some’ once or month or so.
But everyone is ‘different’ your experiences are probably quite different from what I’ve witnessed.
True, it can work either way. They can get the payday up front, or they can go for the annuity plan.
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