With the way feminists have destroyed the younger male generation in this country (why work when the social safetyu net will support you? Why get married when almost every girl you date will spread her legs anyway? etc) and the way men normally get screwed in divorces (although that may have changed a little per the article the mindset is still there) young men just don't see the need to be ready for marriage.
(of course this leaves a bunch of marriage minded young ladies available for older guys who are looking to get married. But the feminists will complain about that too)
Someone up thread mentioned Latino women being subservient. Not as far as I've seen. But they are in many cases not rabid men haters and do tend to be more feminine. I know a few guys who married foreign brides for exactly this reason.
From the article:
Does society have an interest in helping couples like Lily and Carl stay together? Probably, but not in the way many policymakers have proposed. Those who would promote marriage seek to do so largely by taking away Lily’s independence.
Bold faced lie.
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, for example, suggests that more restrictive abortion policies could increase the marriage rate. And many who seek to promote marriage, like the Catholic Church, link the availability of contraception to the sexual freedom they see as responsible for the decline in marriage. Others, like Charles Murray, would cut programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, early childhood education and child care, mandatory family leave, and other policies that make it easier for women like Lily to raise a child on their own.
None of these changes decrease her independence.. IN FACT if she is using any of these programs she is not independent at all. She is depending on the taxpayers to fix her mistake.
What she should do is have the baby, put it up for adoption, and then wait for a man to marry before getting knocked up again.
In our view what would make the most difference to this unfair marriage market are policies that would increase the number and quality of jobs available to working class men,
Good so far.
retraining and unemployment benefits that fill in the gaps between jobs,
And here they blow it. Subsidizing people who are not working only gets you more people not working!
Let’s not make raising a child become yet another marker of class.
It hasn't been for years. The welfare class pops out little meal tickets left and right.
“Those who would promote marriage seek to do so largely by taking away Lily’s independence.”
“Lily” is going to be DEPENDENT on someone.
It will be a husband or father, an employer, or the government.
And meanwhile, “Lily” is raising the next generation of fatherless kids that will accelerate societal decline.