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Men Are More Disinclined to Marry Than Ever – A Reflection on a Serious Problem
Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 10-11-15 | Msgr. Charles Pope

Posted on 10/12/2015 8:32:47 AM PDT by Salvation

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To: DungeonMaster
Two of my five sons have no inclination to get married, or even date.

Hopefully those 2 are not having a gay old time....

81 posted on 10/12/2015 9:42:32 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jsanders2001

I get you on about #4-6, but not the “whores”, infidelity, or bi-sexual/lesbian thing.

I dare say a greater percentage of men visit prostitutes than women are prostitutes. Infidelity is still higher among men than women. And also more men are gay, including closeted gay, than women are lesbian or closeted lesbian.


82 posted on 10/12/2015 9:46:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: jsanders2001

Oh, and you’re right about electronic devices, I think—particularly with boys playing video games into adulthood.


83 posted on 10/12/2015 9:47:04 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Stats don’t bear that out.

Women typically have more sexual partners than men, and men are more likely to be virgins then women.


84 posted on 10/12/2015 9:47:29 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Salvation

“The bottom line is, it’s never good for anyone, or for civilization as a whole, when huge numbers opt out of or find no access to our most fundamental building block: the traditional family. We must save traditional marriage if we stand any chance of saving our dying civilization.”

While this is generally true, it is not true in the end times as individual soul growth is so accelerated that every human being is our brother and sister. We have only one Father and He is within us.

This is why Paul mentioned that it is better to remain single. As growth accelerates when we are not utilizing another soul to create our own wholeness.


85 posted on 10/12/2015 9:47:48 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: redgolum

That’s just not true. Never has been either.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics/n.htm

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/37853719/ns/health-sexual_health/t/surprising-sex-statistics/#.VhvlHvlVhBc

http://www.livescience.com/13072-sex-stats-virgins-rise.html


86 posted on 10/12/2015 9:53:12 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: kearnyirish2
I suspect they would have wives and children if they weren’t 100% aware that sheer boredom on the part of the wife can ruin them financially for decades and steal their children from them.

That, in a nutshell. In modern marriage, men assume most of the risk while a hypergamous female can have her kicks, and the kids, and the house, and a sizeable portion of the man's earnings. In my youth, I wanted to find a nice young woman with whom to settle down and have a family. The problem is, I didn't find much out there in the way of lifelong partnership material.
87 posted on 10/12/2015 9:59:08 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Salvation

There is no upside for them to, given the conditioning of most females from schools, media, shows, and advertising.


88 posted on 10/12/2015 9:59:48 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 9YearLurker

you can fire men a lot easier, and also women are more likely to go along with crap in the workplace than men.


89 posted on 10/12/2015 10:01:56 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cherry

You address only on very narrow element of the broader issue. Men didn’t just abandon their roles, popular culture mocks those men who even desire to fulfill their traditional roles.


90 posted on 10/12/2015 10:02:11 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: jpsb

its like volunteering for work release for 18 years, at least.


91 posted on 10/12/2015 10:03:05 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: tioga

Maybe it tells you how genuinely awful the state of real reltionships with the real women around them actually are. Maybe that is the headline right there.


92 posted on 10/12/2015 10:04:51 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 9YearLurker

“I dare say a greater percentage of men visit prostitutes than women are prostitutes.”

I think you’re reading “whore” a bit too literally. When a woman will have sex with a man on the second date, and most women nowadays will, then they are harlots, floozies, women of low repute, etc...

They may not be professional prostitutes, but they are not women you consider marrying and taking home to meet your mother.


93 posted on 10/12/2015 10:04:58 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Exactly right. Whoever heard of a church charging a member to get married there? A church seeing a wedding as a chance to get paid is on the wrong path.

In real life a few cents of electricity is the only real “cost”. Families and friends clean up after and lock the door. That’s what a group of Christians should do.


94 posted on 10/12/2015 10:05:59 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: VA_Gentleman

The courts and lawyers have never done better’since no-fault divorce and convenience culture, plus the i’m perfect it must be you, mentalities took over.


95 posted on 10/12/2015 10:06:48 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Salvation

In the protestant churches they aren’t missing anything spiritual by not marrying in a church house. In Catholics possibly so?
But just as worship can be done on the hood of a jeep, a wedding can be anywhere that people gather in his name.

One of the most amazing easter services I ever attended was in Moab Utah, in the back country, with friends standing around a few jeeps. Nobody even passed the plate and put the bite on us.


96 posted on 10/12/2015 10:09:34 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: kearnyirish2

women complaining about being treated like a man, still have no idea what being treated like a man really is, they still get special treatment. even though they think they don’t. still harder to be let go. still can cry and have it work on much more people. still can have thousands more support groups just for them. still have more government programs just for them. still are a protected class. still have lawsuits by them be effective because they are a protected class. “family” courts totally biased their way.


97 posted on 10/12/2015 10:10:50 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: central_va

or’fix things. or do heavy lifting.


98 posted on 10/12/2015 10:12:10 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: central_va
Hopefully those 2 are not having a gay old time....

Definitely not.

99 posted on 10/12/2015 10:12:21 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...)
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To: HangnJudge

I was checking to see if someone had already posted that before I did.


100 posted on 10/12/2015 10:15:04 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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