An interesting article, it brings out some stuff we here on FR have discussed over the years. And I agree with most of it in relation to Education and the changing landscape of available work here in the U.S.
But I am perplexed that she has ignored the Elephant in the room. How are the men that should be the young fathers being treated by the women in their lives and the social system they grew up in? How many of them are the result of broken families? How many of them have seen first hand how their fathers were treated by the courts and by their own mothers. Was it good treatment or was it bad? How many of them have seen through the subtle bias of how fatherhood is treated on TV. The smart supremely intelligent and capable woman and the bumbling sub-par father whose pre-teen children are far smarter than he ever will be.
Does he think of how he was as a pre-teen, was he as smart as those actors on TV? Does he wonder how he will be regarded and treated once he becomes an adult and a father? Or does he decide that being a adolescsent is far better and living in Mom’s basement and interacting with the rest of the world by a computer is far preferable to the reality awaiting him outside the doors of her house.
And when the day inevitably comes for the women who brought about the ‘fairness and equality’ of the men in their lives wonder where did the men go. All they need to do is go look in the basement.
This is vastly overblown, again for the reasons already stated.
Couple things here.
1, there isn’t a crisis between the married men and women.
2, there IS a crisis with the single mothers.
So what we have to ask ourselves is why is this crisis come about? Why are 40 percent of all women choosing to raise their children alone? Where are the boys?
If, as you say the problem is that the boys aren’t interacting with the girls -where are all these babies coming from?
The reality is much more simpler. The boys who are at home are the ones who are:
1, trying to save up money so that they can get married.
2, working part-time where the cost of rent would far outstrip what they make working.
The job market is atrociously bad for young men 30 or under. It’s absolutely terrible. If you do get a job, you aren’t going to get benefits and you aren’t going to get any commitment on the part of the employer.
As for school + education you might want to take a look at what is actually going on. ;) There is preferential admissions policy for women, and look at the degrees that they tend to get. There are women quotas all the way through in degree classes where women are less likely to get degrees, but none for the men.
Then you get all the benefits that the women qualify for and the men do not. So it’s actually cheaper to get an education, easier to get in and easier to stay in and we wonder why more women are getting degrees? It’s not hard.
Some of the colleges are waking up to the fact that having it 66/33 women is a bum deal for the women looking to find a guy to get married. Every single college with enrollment like that is seeing their enrollment collapse.
The only thing keeping the college industry going are the loans. We make it cheap for a student to spend 4 years studying and offer loans for it when we will not offer a similarly aged man a loan for 4 years to not study. This represents a significant distortion in the market.