Guys just want the milk without buying the cow. A lot of people destined for a lonely old age.
Kind of hard to conduct a Midnight Rendezvous when you have to maintain six feet separation.
Blame it on incels who don’t want to use the D for the P.
I'm thinking very few 22 year olds get married today. Most 22 year olds today are probably still living with their parents.
It’s low because couples are living together rather than marrying.
I honestly don’t understand how so many selfish people can have children and then be shipping them back and forth all the time.
Yeah, I know it happens; but there is no commitment from anyone these days it seems like.
The lack of marriage is simply an indicator of this process of decomposition.
They just want the sex without the sacramental graces.
Their loss.
It appears that the number of marriages mirrors church attendance. According to Gallop the percentage of Americans claiming to be religious was:
1998/2000 - 90%
2016/2000 - 77%
- those claiming no religion was:
1998/2000 - 8%
2016/2000 - 19%
It seems we have lost our way along the way!!
I’m married by common law. We’ve been together for eleven years (come June), but we have financial reasons to not be married. I’d be forced into his health insurance, which is abysmal, and I would rather not get stuck on a plan that only pays 1% of bills. No joke. Last time he was in the ER for a work-related injury, he had to pay in installments.
Otherwise we’d have hit he courthouse by now.
American men has smartened up.
It’s sad but true..
No wonder guys are eschewing marriage. I hear the market for Russian brides is brisk, however.
Looks like the Feminists and LGBTs are winning over us normal people.
There are many reasons for this. It’s easy to get divorced for one.
Second, if you get divorced, divorce law makes it painful, usually for the man but not always. There are women who go through the wringer as well. And as far as the mans obligations in a divorce, who wants to pay alimony to a grown woman, particularly a childless woman in 2020?
Third, society views men as oppressive patriarchs so women grow up distrusting men and children are less likely to listen to men.
Fourth, women are encouraged to be more promiscuous, so men have a lot of opportunity for six without marriage. Also, women are more likely to have children without being married because of the premarital sex culture.
Fifth, you have children of divorcees who don’t want to subject themselves or children to divorce.
Promiscuous women are the norm rather than the exception today and those loose morals translate into a higher rate of female infidelity.
Feminist leaning courts most times give excessive awards to women even when they’ve been unfaithful. It puts a man in an impossible position, they feel they have no choice but to divorce but in order to get a cheating spouse out of their life they have to give up most of their assets, assets that usually were accrued almost solely as a result of the man’s labor.
Yes, I speak from experience here. Knowing that you can’t divorce an unfaithful wife without losing your life’s work is a huge factor in the reluctance of many men to marry today. Any man who at least doesn’t consider it is a fool. I was a fool. I would never, ever marry again without an ironclad prenuptial agreement and most likely would protect my assets with a trust also. I don’t plan on remarrying though, once through that wringer is enough.
My adult son — case in point — “together” 10 years with same woman. Purchased a home not together in his name 7 years ago. His girlfriend as he calls her splits the utilities and food. If and when they break up it will be a huge legal problem because she will want her share of the assets she feels she deserves.
I don’t think they thought it out what a long term togetherness means just shacking up sounded good at the time. Immature kids with no plan but not guarantee of a promise of a future.
Sixth, motherhood is cast as hell in the modern media.
She Got the Goldmine, I got the shaft
The song works because it’s true
and more men recognize truth in its many forms
most guys it jumps right over because it’s put to music
but its true