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?
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Marry me.
Marry me.
Marry me.
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Marry me.
WHOA! I got a ‘YES’! Coly Hrap!
I’ll see what my hubby says.
BOOP!
This will not turn out well for those women, I am in my mid 50’s and remember very well the beginning of the feminist movement, all those girls that bought into it are still single, lonely, and for the most part poor. Women my age nowadays are so desperate they will generally drop their pants on Hello.
the reason women aren’t married is the oppressive child support required of daddy if Mommy just takes off for no reason. We are talking prison — arrest for Daddy . Women get free lawyers. Men are wiped out ( not minority men). Any male with a brain steers totally away from marriage. Millions of women now adopt because no man will risk fatherhood. irrefutable truth.
Snicker! :-)
I’m sure there will be tons of posts on this thread about how women are nasty, selfish, feminazi b****es who deserve to be single and all the wonderful, noble, perfect men of the world naturally do not want to marry such evil, inferior creatures. Blah, blah, blah.
The way I see it is, 1. More men are gay than women. Reduces the pool of men. 2. More men are criminals than women. Further reduces the pool. 3. Some men are not good marriage prospects because they are mama’s boys, or they don’t want to commit, or they abuse alcohol or drugs, or they are woman-beaters, or they don’t have jobs, etc., etc. 4. The remaining men who are nice guys with decent jobs and want to get married get snapped up by the most beautiful, desirable women. Men almost always marry up; women marry down. So a man who’s an “8” is going to be eagerly snapped up by a woman who’s a “10.” 5. As a result, lots of nice women who want to get married, but are not gorgeous, have a smaller pool of marriageable men from which to choose. It’s logical that some women are going to remain single. The odds are not in their favor.
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If I was a woman and seeing this metrosexual, feminized males, and sissy cry babies to pick from, I would probably stay single.
Answer, according to my daughters: because there are too many guys and not enough godly men. They’ve both found wonderful young men, but they’re few and far between.
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I for one like my life and my career. Several guys said they’d prefer not to let me do that. So .......
They no longer come with a dowry.
No incentive...
I agree.
This is the deal, as told by a 50 year old man, married for 25 years,
Women want a “real” man. They don’t want men who have more product in their bathroom then they do. Women want a man who is confident, has a good sense of humor and knows how to treat a lady. Women want a man who, even if he is not a six figure earner or a Ivy League grad, can still string two coherent sentences together, has a job and is just as mature as he is silly.
In the cities, all bets are off. If you are single and living in the city, chances are you are way too busy with work to settle down into a long term relationship. I know, been there and done that for 10 years. My idea of a relationship was offering her coffee in the morning. If I was offered coffee in the morning I thought I met someone special.
Funny thing is, once I got married, more women came on to me because women who didn’t want a relationship saw a married guy as a non committed hookup. What they didn’t take into consideration was once I got married, I was off the market.
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