Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Bachelor Nation: 70% of Men Aged 20-34 Are Not Married
Pajamas Media ^ | 03/12/2015 | Dr. Helen Smith

Posted on 03/12/2015 7:37:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind


I saw this headline at Newsalert from a CNS News article and went over to read it:

(CNSNews.com) – Seventy percent of American males between the ages of 20 and 34 are not married, and many live in a state of “perpetual adolescence” with ominous consequences for the nation’s future, says Janice Shaw Crouse, author of “Marriage Matters.”

“Far too many young men have failed to make a normal progression into adult roles of responsibility and self-sufficiency, roles generally associated with marriage and fatherhood,” Crouse, the former executive director of the Beverly LaHaye Institute, wrote in a recent Washington Times oped.

The high percentage of bachelors means bleak prospects for millions of young women who dream about a wedding day that may never come. “It’s very, very depressing,” Crouse told CNSNews.com.

It seems that Crouse and her crowd are watching too many Say Yes to the Dress episodes. So what matters is that women’s dreams are shattered? What about the bleak prospects for millions of men across the country who get very little legal or psychological protection from marriage? Now that’s what’s very, very depressing. Change that and maybe more men will be interested.



TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bachelor; demographics; marriage; waronmen
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 121-140141-160161-180 ... 241-249 next last
To: Pikachu_Dad

Why wouldn’t one just stop working then?


141 posted on 03/12/2015 11:24:05 AM PDT by ez (Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is... - Milton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 138 | View Replies]

To: max americana

I think..it would be better to sing the pre nup....but what do I know.


142 posted on 03/12/2015 11:25:13 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: VanDeKoik
Females DO want to settle down. Just not until they get used up as an amusement park ride. Once the phone no longer rings, then they will seek out some responsible sucker to be her “true love”.

This is true. In their 20's, women seem to all compete for the limited pool of especially desirable men. This results in the "most desirable 10%" getting lots of sex and female attention.

Then they get older, the desirable men have moved on to the next crop of sweet young things, and they desire some guy to marry and support their high-mileage butts. And then get upset when no man that they would be interested in, is interested in THEM.

143 posted on 03/12/2015 11:27:16 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: Albion Wilde

Alimony. I didn’t say child support. I know the difference.


144 posted on 03/12/2015 11:40:05 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 112 | View Replies]

To: ez

“Why wouldn’t one just stop working then?”

Can’t. Court determines alimony and child support based on previous year or prior years with expectation on continuation of income. Failure to pay is jail. Quitting work would have no effect.


145 posted on 03/12/2015 11:41:32 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 141 | View Replies]

To: Albion Wilde

“The fact that more women initiate divorce than men indicates little.”

It indicates that women feel they can benefit from divorce. In most cases that is true. It does not in any way indicate who should have filed. Men often feel compelled to see the marriage through out of a sense of responsibility and not divorce, yet, many women do not feel that sense of responsibility. The fact that women file the divorce more than men is a negative against women.


146 posted on 03/12/2015 11:46:44 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 106 | View Replies]

To: BlackAdderess

“Well there is a big difference between the married men at church (who are clean, well fed, and running things), vs the unmarried forty-year-olds.”

Your comments suggest the “unmarried forty-year-olds” are not “clean, well fed, and running things”, when in actuality they are.


147 posted on 03/12/2015 11:48:05 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 120 | View Replies]

To: skeeter
It has become obvious recently that the goal for all of the grievance groups - feminists included - that equality is not the goal. Dominance is.

+1+1+1

And they are setting the agenda and the rules. It's college graduates who are the most 'marriageable' from the feminists point of view. Their college experience, if the headlines indicate correctly, makes them less likely to be interested.

148 posted on 03/12/2015 11:51:25 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: CodeToad
You said a book full of truth with that one.

I think not. Modern women view children as the ultimate accessory. No father needed, just a sperm donor.

149 posted on 03/12/2015 11:56:13 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]

To: Albion Wilde

No child support. She got the house, I got all four kids and all the bills. She was and still is on SS disability.


150 posted on 03/12/2015 12:04:12 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 82 | View Replies]

To: CatherineofAragon

The feminization of men, multiple generations.


151 posted on 03/12/2015 12:07:33 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 137 | View Replies]

To: DesertRhino

>> trapped with women who couldn’t care less if he is happy<<

Not only that, but daring to get MAD at him for expressing his unhappiness.


152 posted on 03/12/2015 12:08:22 PM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow ("I'm not questioning your honor...I'm denying its existence." - Tyrion Lannister)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 115 | View Replies]

To: umgud

I’m kind of in your boat. I kept the home (and all the marital debt) and my kids (the ultimate objective) live with me full time. She refuses to work or help out financially with the kids and is going for the holy grail of disability.
Fortunately, I only have to do four years alimony and it decreases when certain criteria are meat and has a non-modifiable clause in the divorce decree. I was going to go to family court for support but realized it wasn’t worth it; more of headache than anything else.


153 posted on 03/12/2015 12:12:33 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 150 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Marriage exists to honor God. This is another measure of how this country is turning away from God.


154 posted on 03/12/2015 12:17:27 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CatherineofAragon
I swear I actually wonder if it's something in the water.


155 posted on 03/12/2015 12:26:32 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 137 | View Replies]

To: CodeToad

Perhaps somewhere, but not at my church. There was a single preacher once but he was a notorious slob who oddly enough felt the need to announce he was an atheist and that nobody was allowed to show him religious intolerance since he was otherwise qualified.

I do think dating after a certain point is like the joke about Alaska, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.


156 posted on 03/12/2015 12:28:43 PM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 147 | View Replies]

To: CatherineofAragon

I think it is something in the water and treating a grown man like a child does not help.


157 posted on 03/12/2015 12:37:34 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 137 | View Replies]

To: gogeo

Could be.


158 posted on 03/12/2015 12:41:06 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 151 | View Replies]

To: DesertRhino
Most men that age haven’t experienced it either. They have watched fathers raped in divorces, and heard the stories of older coworkers. But mist terrifying of all to these younger men, is talking to guys in their 40 who are still married, and are simply enduring a slow motion hell. They see those men who are dead inside, trapped with women who couldn’t care less if he is happy, and they avoid that end like the plague. And they should,,,, until American women start beginning to care about the man’s happiness.

You hit the nail on the head there — and it takes a particular kind of arrogance for one to declare that the observation of these young men is invalid because they haven't personally experienced it, which is somewhat akin to asserting that someone who always ensures that the power is turned off before doing electrical work is stupid because he's never personally been electrocuted prior to it.

There's a lot in society that's been perverted by feminism; I would posit that it's so much that in-general any particular masculine trait may at any point be dismissed/devalued and [simultaneously] failure to hold to such is reason/justification for belittling. (Just look at the amount of people calling the younger generation of males pajama boy-types, and I'll wager that most/all making that condemnation do nothing to mentor/teach real manliness to such.) — There's also a sort profit in keeping young men suppressed: learned helplessness helps ensure the superior position of the elite by making overthrowing them unthinkable.

159 posted on 03/12/2015 12:41:25 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 115 | View Replies]

To: OneWingedShark; Foundahardheadedwoman

Remember the Marlboro Man commercials? You really don’t see men who look like that anymore.


160 posted on 03/12/2015 12:42:09 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 155 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 121-140141-160161-180 ... 241-249 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson