Posted on 10/16/2014 9:54:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
ome revolutions happen in a single day; others over decades. The rise of the voluntarily single woman has been happening in Western societies slowly, over time, concomitant with well-paying jobs, legal protection from economic or physical abuse, reliable birth control and the possibility of fulfilling careers and adventures.
Women are marrying at a later age these days, cohabiting with their partners or going in and out of short-term relationships without ever walking down the aisle.
Currently, 53% of women over 18 are in the singles column. Put another way, women now have choices that allow them to customize the arc of their lives and some of them find that it is best for them to put marriage aside.
Is this natural? Is this bad? Is this cause for alarm?
We have long counted on women's sacrifices and the compromises they've made to lift societies all over the world. We are worried that if women delay or forgo marriage, the all-important family unit will suffer. As much as I admire happy couples and families, I think this may be one of the few times in history when so many women could choose from such a full range of life choices without penalty or stigma. Since few people "have it all," why not choose being single if that's the best option?
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Depends on your definition of "up" and "down". While women may marry somebody less attractive than them, women usually will NOT marry somebody of lower education, social status, or income.
Meanwhile, a professional man will marry a waitress if she is sufficiently eager to please him.
Yup, feminist have sowed bad seed in the last 70 years and now all of us are reaping what they have sowed.
Yes, selfishness and self-centered ness is the trate you can see in most modern women thanks to the bad seed and indoctrination of femism.
I’d have married young if I had found the right man. But no amount of dating or introductions brought him into my life until I was 31. We got married two years later. He’s my soul mate, and I’m glad it happened the way it did.
The average obese American woman does less than FIVE MINUTES of cardiovascular excercise in A WHOLE YEAR.
That’s a real statistic.
She went against “ going with the flow and what’s popular “ and followed her heart ( and I do believe our dear Lord above directed her steps reguardess of what her friends said.)
She looked in the rearview mirror and saw what happened to her friends and never looked back.
And yet others figure, “Why buy (and be responsible for) the whole pig if I can just get a little sausage for free every now and then?”
Men who have more product in the bathroom than the woman ? Sorry, I just can’t give up my bar of soap to get clean ...... And for God’s sake, got to have toilet paper.
You proposed to several other women before me. So forget it.
;p
Tee hee
Touche, Darlin’.
More than half of the population are poor and undereducated. For those it pays to be on the system and have kids for money out of wed lock.
Yes but you are the only one I TRULY love.
Give me back my damn engagement ring. I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on Earth.
I had a supposed “ good christian woman “ tell me, that MOST women would not accept me because of the “ way I am “ ..... She was talking about my physical handicap and physical deformities.
You know what I told her ? ...... “ your not saying anything to me that I don’t aready know about women “......
Gee ? And just think ? We are constantly indoctrinated by the media that “ women are morally superior than men “.
We hear it from women all the time in the media that ? It’s the MEN who are shallow , superficial, selfish, and immature.
Ok, so the two of you responded with a smiley. I say, let’s all three of us get married.
LOL. Do you work around mules a lot? I mean, have you ever been kicked in the head by one? Recently? As a child? Both?
And that's why middle-class American women will fight fiercely against any attempt to reduce welfare -- because they know that a poor young woman without access to welfare will try to be the mistress of some guy with money.
Easy Roc!
No, thanks, but if you’re ever in town, I’ll do your laundry.
The younger women I know suffered through their parents divorce. As a result they are terrified of marriage.
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