Posted on 09/28/2014 7:11:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is why I do not fear overpopulation. Liberals belive in the falsified therories of Malthus that overpopulation is inevitable. Cornicopians belive that despite growing population, we can still provide resources. But there is a third way, predicted by John B. Calhoun, that our populations will enevitably collapse on their owm, without reaching resource limits. This is what is beginning to happen all around the world now. Japan is the leader, but soon it will happen all over. In China they lifted the one child ban, but the birth rate did not rise. It will not reach replacement level again in China.
The longer one stays single, the more difficult it is to find a life’s partner.
That is very, very true.
I married really young. But after my LO passed away...it is almost impossible to find that same level of commitment.
The older a person the less one wants to. Once you are past the age where it can be expected that one can be a parent, there is almost no reason to marry at all.
When I was young, I wanted to be married. After seeing what has happened to many of my married friends, I really don’t see much “up side.”
>>because single people don’t usually make as much as a married couple can<<
I think married couples who both work is a cultural and societal aberration that should never be celebrated.
Such couples sacrifice their children on the altar of selfishness.
IOW: No surprise given such destructive “ideals” as “gay marriage” (which will soon translate to polygamy and polyandry).
Thanks Gen Y and Millenials.
Well, there’s married and there’s reproducing, right gay couples? Not necessarily the same thing. And hetero women aren’t going to marry a man who can’t hold a steady job and in Obama’s America, how many single young men have steady jobs? Plus there are a lot of free cows providing milk out there so there’s less incentive to want to pay for a cow. You see how liberalism has destroyed the family yet?
But don’t worry. I see little black and latin babies all over because their mothers know the government will raise their children. It’s only the white women who still cling to this idea of a male provider in the home. The minorities have Uncle Sap as their daddy.
I’m in my late 50s, seeing a woman of the same age. I was widowed several years ago. She is divorced. We both have adult children. We are an established couple, but we have no plans to get married. I think I am one of those people you are referring to. I don’t see a reason to get married at our ages.
Well, with a 50% divorce rate, or whatever it is, now, what can you expect? We’re being told that marriage doesn’t mean anything, and that it’s wrong to expect people to have standards. Open-marriages, spouse-trading, polygamy etc. Make marriage a meaningless institution.
You touch a bit on the issue of sex.
I was with a group of older men recently, and the subject of marriage and sex came up. One man said he married his girlfriend all those years ago, because it was the only way he would get to experience certain things with her. Young people nowadays just don’t think like that.
With recreational sex being the norm in our culture, not too many young people anymore are brought up with the notion that sex is saved for marriage, and that you should get married to experience that.
What you say only applies to traditional marriage.
The same people who tell us that marriage doesn’t mean anything, that it oppresses women, etc. are the same people who insist we must have homosexual marriage.
Any situation where somebody has chosen to forego the traditional marriage because they are of an age where they really wouldn’t benefit from the institution. Permanent singleness, living together, etc.
“That will influence how much money they spend and what they buy.”
Because we live and die by a CONSUMER Economy. Sad.
They are constantly cycling through dead-end jobs. A stint at a Home Depot followed by a gig at Radio Shack and then maybe a month or two delivering pizzas - until their car breaks down and they have to quit because they can't afford to get it fixed. You get the picture. They are perpetual adolescents - overgrown kids.
Not sure what the answer is. Our culture has by and large emasculated the American male and I'm not sure how we are going to get our masculinity back.
I knew a girl around 21 years ago who was just out of high school. We worked together and she lived next door to me.
She was one of those girls we all have known. Prom Queen, Queen of everything else, 4 years a cheerleader, named “sweetest’ and rightfully so. She was a devoted Christian yet had gotten involved in sex.
I thought the best thing for her would to get married but she wanted a career first. Around the age of 37 she finally did get married and she was still pretty enough to attract a wealthy guy.
I noticed they have a baby and from the pictures I think the baby may just have a bit of Down’s Syndrome. I can’t be sure but she does look a little that way. Of course I am sure she loves the baby but it would have been so much better if she had gotten married at 20 and had her babies then.
Divorced 8 years after 25 years of marriage ... I’d do it again, (even now). Hell, I’d even marry her again. (won’t ever happen, cause now I’m broke... wonder how that happened?)
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Well, what did y’all expect, when you pretty much outlawed fatherhood? Dating, even in the 1970s...oooo, that smell!
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