American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage

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"American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage


Major demographic shifts have put men and women on divergent paths. That’s left more women resigned to being single. ‘The numbers aren’t netting out.’
After a handful of underwhelming relationships and dozens of disappointing first dates, Andrea Vorlicek recently called off the search for a husband.
The 29-year-old always thought she’d have found her life partner by now. Instead, she’s house hunting solo and considering having kids on her own.

“I’m financially self-sufficient enough to do these things myself,” said Vorlicek, a Boston-based accountant. “I’m willing to accept being single versus settling for someone who isn’t the right fit.”
She sees her plans for an independent future as making the best of a lousy situation. “I don’t want to sit here and say I’m 100% happy,” Vorlicek said. “But I feel happier just accepting my reality. It’s mentally and emotionally a sense of peace.”

American women have never been this resigned to staying single. They are responding to major demographic shifts, including huge and growing gender gaps in economic and educational attainment, political affiliation and beliefs about what a family should look like.
“The numbers aren’t netting out,” said Daniel Cox, director of the"





This does not bode well for the nation as a whole. There will be a lot of lonely cat ladies in a decade or two.
 
DonGlock26 said:
"American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage


Major demographic shifts have put men and women on divergent paths. That’s left more women resigned to being single. ‘The numbers aren’t netting out.’
After a handful of underwhelming relationships and dozens of disappointing first dates, Andrea Vorlicek recently called off the search for a husband.
The 29-year-old always thought she’d have found her life partner by now. Instead, she’s house hunting solo and considering having kids on her own.

“I’m financially self-sufficient enough to do these things myself,” said Vorlicek, a Boston-based accountant. “I’m willing to accept being single versus settling for someone who isn’t the right fit.”
She sees her plans for an independent future as making the best of a lousy situation. “I don’t want to sit here and say I’m 100% happy,” Vorlicek said. “But I feel happier just accepting my reality. It’s mentally and emotionally a sense of peace.”

American women have never been this resigned to staying single. They are responding to major demographic shifts, including huge and growing gender gaps in economic and educational attainment, political affiliation and beliefs about what a family should look like.
“The numbers aren’t netting out,” said Daniel Cox, director of the"





This does not bode well for the nation as a whole. There will be a lot of lonely cat ladies in a decade or two.
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Unfair divorce and child custody practices/alimony etc will do that to an institution.

It's become a racket for many women. You never see a wealthy woman want to "marry down", it's become a financial transaction for them. I imagine young men would rather just spend the cash on a call girl than get embroiled in a relationship where they might get accused of something they didn't do and/or be a sucker on the hook for a marriage that is only of convenience for the woman.

It's a sad reality in the Western World and the courts have made it far worse. Similar to the $400M rulings against people for slander. It's completely off balance.
 
shockedcanadian said:
Unfair divorce and child custody practices/alimony etc will do that to an institution.

It's become a racket for many women. You never see a wealthy woman want to "marry down", it's become a financial transaction for them. I imagine young men would rather just spend the cash on a call girl than get embroiled in a relationship where they might get accused of something they didn't do and/or be a sucker on the hook for a marriage that is only of convenience for the woman.

It's a sad reality in the Western World and the courts have made it far worse. Similar to the $400M rulings against people for slander. It's completely off balance.
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I agree. These women will not be happy later in life.
 
DonGlock26 said:
"American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage


Major demographic shifts have put men and women on divergent paths. That’s left more women resigned to being single. ‘The numbers aren’t netting out.’
After a handful of underwhelming relationships and dozens of disappointing first dates, Andrea Vorlicek recently called off the search for a husband.
The 29-year-old always thought she’d have found her life partner by now. Instead, she’s house hunting solo and considering having kids on her own.

“I’m financially self-sufficient enough to do these things myself,” said Vorlicek, a Boston-based accountant. “I’m willing to accept being single versus settling for someone who isn’t the right fit.”
She sees her plans for an independent future as making the best of a lousy situation. “I don’t want to sit here and say I’m 100% happy,” Vorlicek said. “But I feel happier just accepting my reality. It’s mentally and emotionally a sense of peace.”

American women have never been this resigned to staying single. They are responding to major demographic shifts, including huge and growing gender gaps in economic and educational attainment, political affiliation and beliefs about what a family should look like.
“The numbers aren’t netting out,” said Daniel Cox, director of the"





This does not bode well for the nation as a whole. There will be a lot of lonely cat ladies in a decade or two.
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Women can have babies without a husband. Trump signed an EO that encourages IVF.
 
Traditional men/women roles are, according to the left, a right-wing and white supremacist narrative.

I follow a few zoomer channels to stay in touch with what is going on with my kid and his generation.


Zoomers are actually more traditional and conservative than the Millenials are.


She just dropped another related video to this topic. While she herself is a lefty/Bernie type person. . . she doesn't buy into post-modernism at all.

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The crazy liberals killed traditional families

nypost.com

Feminism has destabilized the American family

In 1970, three furious feminist tracts dominated the bestseller lists: Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics,” Germaine Greer’s “The Female Eunuch,” and Shulamith Firestone’s “The Dialectic of Sex.” They…
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By Mona Charen
In 1970, three furious feminist tracts dominated the bestseller lists: Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics,” Germaine Greer’s “The Female Eunuch,” and Shulamith Firestone’s “The Dialectic of Sex.” They, and others who comprised what was then called the “women’s lib” movement, fulminated against male dominance, endorsed sexual liberation and demanded that the nuclear family be smashed.

Their fame has faded, but their influence lives on. Lena Dunham, who has built a persona as a spokesman for women, wondered how any woman could reject the label feminist (a 2016 poll found that 68 percent of American women use the term to describe themselves). Her free-floating contempt for men was evident in a recent tweet: “I’d honestly rather fall into one million manholes than have one single dude tell me to watch my step.”

Note the resentment, even when men are attempting to be kind. Dunham is voicing the 21st-century version of the 1970s slogan: “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Without denying the beneficial effects of feminism, we are overdue for a reckoning about its missteps. One of those was stoking such bitterness between men and women.

While there is near-universal agreement that women should be treated equally in the workplace and in the family, other aspects of the feminist agenda — such as devaluing marriage — have left women more, not less vulnerable than they were pre-revolution.

In 2012, Katie Roiphe, feminist and mother of two children by different fathers, condemned concerns about single motherhood: “If there is anything that currently oppresses the children, it is the idea of the way families are ‘supposed to be.’ ” That’s the feminist mantra, but “alternative” families work only for a tiny minority. For most women, children and, as we’re coming to understand better with each passing year, men, the traditional family remains the gold standard.
 
There IS a solution…

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TroglocratsRdumb said:
The crazy liberals killed traditional families

nypost.com

Feminism has destabilized the American family

In 1970, three furious feminist tracts dominated the bestseller lists: Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics,” Germaine Greer’s “The Female Eunuch,” and Shulamith Firestone’s “The Dialectic of Sex.” They…
nypost.com nypost.com
By Mona Charen
In 1970, three furious feminist tracts dominated the bestseller lists: Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics,” Germaine Greer’s “The Female Eunuch,” and Shulamith Firestone’s “The Dialectic of Sex.” They, and others who comprised what was then called the “women’s lib” movement, fulminated against male dominance, endorsed sexual liberation and demanded that the nuclear family be smashed.

Their fame has faded, but their influence lives on. Lena Dunham, who has built a persona as a spokesman for women, wondered how any woman could reject the label feminist (a 2016 poll found that 68 percent of American women use the term to describe themselves). Her free-floating contempt for men was evident in a recent tweet: “I’d honestly rather fall into one million manholes than have one single dude tell me to watch my step.”

Note the resentment, even when men are attempting to be kind. Dunham is voicing the 21st-century version of the 1970s slogan: “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Without denying the beneficial effects of feminism, we are overdue for a reckoning about its missteps. One of those was stoking such bitterness between men and women.

While there is near-universal agreement that women should be treated equally in the workplace and in the family, other aspects of the feminist agenda — such as devaluing marriage — have left women more, not less vulnerable than they were pre-revolution.

In 2012, Katie Roiphe, feminist and mother of two children by different fathers, condemned concerns about single motherhood: “If there is anything that currently oppresses the children, it is the idea of the way families are ‘supposed to be.’ ” That’s the feminist mantra, but “alternative” families work only for a tiny minority. For most women, children and, as we’re coming to understand better with each passing year, men, the traditional family remains the gold standard.
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There are several factors working against marriage, and that is not good.
 
DonGlock26 said:
"American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage


Major demographic shifts have put men and women on divergent paths. That’s left more women resigned to being single. ‘The numbers aren’t netting out.’
After a handful of underwhelming relationships and dozens of disappointing first dates, Andrea Vorlicek recently called off the search for a husband.
The 29-year-old always thought she’d have found her life partner by now. Instead, she’s house hunting solo and considering having kids on her own.

“I’m financially self-sufficient enough to do these things myself,” said Vorlicek, a Boston-based accountant. “I’m willing to accept being single versus settling for someone who isn’t the right fit.”
She sees her plans for an independent future as making the best of a lousy situation. “I don’t want to sit here and say I’m 100% happy,” Vorlicek said. “But I feel happier just accepting my reality. It’s mentally and emotionally a sense of peace.”

American women have never been this resigned to staying single. They are responding to major demographic shifts, including huge and growing gender gaps in economic and educational attainment, political affiliation and beliefs about what a family should look like.
“The numbers aren’t netting out,” said Daniel Cox, director of the"





This does not bode well for the nation as a whole. There will be a lot of lonely cat ladies in a decade or two.
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Not in my pew. I sit with four generations of the same family at Saturday night Mass and there is never a shortage of parents (plural) with two, three, four and more children, packing the church.


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DonGlock26 said:
"American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage


Major demographic shifts have put men and women on divergent paths. That’s left more women resigned to being single. ‘The numbers aren’t netting out.’
After a handful of underwhelming relationships and dozens of disappointing first dates, Andrea Vorlicek recently called off the search for a husband.
The 29-year-old always thought she’d have found her life partner by now. Instead, she’s house hunting solo and considering having kids on her own.

“I’m financially self-sufficient enough to do these things myself,” said Vorlicek, a Boston-based accountant. “I’m willing to accept being single versus settling for someone who isn’t the right fit.”
She sees her plans for an independent future as making the best of a lousy situation. “I don’t want to sit here and say I’m 100% happy,” Vorlicek said. “But I feel happier just accepting my reality. It’s mentally and emotionally a sense of peace.”

American women have never been this resigned to staying single. They are responding to major demographic shifts, including huge and growing gender gaps in economic and educational attainment, political affiliation and beliefs about what a family should look like.
“The numbers aren’t netting out,” said Daniel Cox, director of the"





This does not bode well for the nation as a whole. There will be a lot of lonely cat ladies in a decade or two.
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For sure everybody isn't cut out for marriage. Everybody isn't capable of choosing wisely and/or sustaining a lifetime relationship

At the same time I believe there is somebody for everyone who truly wants a life mate and is at all willing to meet another person half way or more.

The best marriages have their ups and downs. I have been happily married--most of the time--to the same guy for many decades now. I say most of the time because there are times that simply are not happy.

But people in good marriages are able to work through those times and emerge happy again. And they do not bring unrealistic expectations to a marriage and understand that what you see on television or in the movies is not always the way it is going to be. And sometimes despite the best efforts of both parties, the marriage just cannot be sustained and it is necessary to separate.

But when you find your lifelong soul mate, together we provide a stability and role models for our children that is almost always beneficial. We build a history together, help each other, have each others' backs, and have a reliable witness to our lives that is priceless.

For my husband and me it has been worth it despite the many difficult times--medically, financially, emotionally, etc.
 
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Foxfyre said:
For sure everybody isn't cut out for marriage. Everybody isn't capable of choosing wisely and/or sustaining a lifetime relationship

At the same time I believe there is somebody for everyone who truly wants a life mate and is at all willing to meet another person half way or more.

The best marriages have their ups and downs. I have been happily married--most of the time--to the same guy for many decades now. I say most of the time because there are times that simply are not happy.

But people in good marriages are able to work through those times and emerge happy again. And they do not bring unrealistic expectations to a marriage and understand that what you see on television or in the movies is not always the way it is going to be. And sometimes despite the best efforts of both parties, the marriage just cannot be sustained and it is necessary to separate.

But when you find your lifelong soul mate, together we provide a stability and role models for our children that is almost always beneficial. We build a history together and have a reliable witness to our lives that is priceless.

For my husband and me it has been worth it despite the many difficult times--medically, financially, emotionally, etc.
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I'm glad to hear that you have a long and mostly happy marriage. It shows in the quality of your posting here -- you're obviously a stable and self respecting person.

There's a couple in my church that has been married for seven full decades. If a couple wants to be married in the Catholic church, or at least the remnant of the true Catholic church that is worth being part of, they must go through six months of counseling and not live together before marriage. This urges them to REALLY get to know one another, which is what I think makes for the success of their marriages.

I'm so privileged to be a member of this kind of community.


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OhPleaseJustQuit said:
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I'm glad to hear that you have a long and mostly happy marriage. It shows in the quality of your posting here -- you're obviously a stable and self respecting person.

There's a couple in my church that has been married for seven full decades. If a couple wants to be married in the Catholic church, or at least the remnant of the true Catholic church that is worth being part of, they must go through six months of counseling and not live together before marriage. This urges them to REALLY get to know one another, which is what I think makes for the success of their marriages.

I'm so privileged to be a member of this kind of community.


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Thank you for your kind words.

Not being Catholic, Hombre and I had no counseling. (We might have avoided some of those rough spots if we had.) We did not ever live together before marriage. We were both working for the daily newspaper when we met in June. We had a our first date in July, were engaged by September and married five months later in February. So we knew each other just nine months when we married. Ten months after our wedding our first born arrived. We sort of did things pretty fast I guess. :)
 
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