[C19fan]

So dating is becoming a luxury item like marriage. Dinner and a movie no longer is enough. I wonder how much of this is due to shows like "The Bachelor" where "courtship" involves over the top and expensive "dates".

[Mouton]

I guess the era of guy pays is back.

[Billthedrill]

How much did that cell phone cost again? Color me a bit skeptical.

[KC_Conspirator]

Well, if they voted for politicians that provided an environment for them to have good paying jobs, then this might be different.

[southernindymom]

Wow what a LAME EXCUSE. Grabbing a pizza and watching a movie at home is too expensive? Oh, I guess since they live in Mom and Dad’s basement, that wouldn’t be cool..... what a bunch of pathetic losers.

[SolidRedState]

If they didn’t spend all their money on Netflix, huge cell phone plans etc. maybe they would have a few bucks for dinner and a movie.

[Lurker51]

That is the stupidest premise I’ve ever heard. Heck, I was married before my wife and I had any money.

[faithhopecharity]

what utter bullsheit!
(why would anyone even dream this krap up?)

[grobdriver]

a quarter of respondents even said they would happily have sex with a human-like robot

A quarter of respondents are virgins?

That's the only way I can imagine such stupidity...

[BBQToadRibs]

Oh c’mon. I bet half the dates my now wife and I went on were between $10-$20, if they weren’t free, because we were just enjoying spending time together. Lousy excuse.

[dfwgator]

I thought people were “hooking up”, not dating.

[Menehune56]

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders soon to promise a Federal dating subsidy for millennials.

[Artcore]

Oh pahlease!

They’re staying single because millennial chicks are F-ing flakes who would much rather hang out with their transgender “guy” friends!

[SamAdams76]

The "dinner and movie" dating model is so...well, outdated and cliche.

Dates do not need to involve money. Go on a hike in the woods. Walk along the beach. Go to a museum (many are free). Go to the public library. Or a free outdoor concert that most bigger cities have during the summer.

[fr_freak]

This article is BS on its face. It doesn't cost money to date. Anyone remember college? It DOES cost money to get married, though.

All that is required for dating is the desire, and I suspect THAT is the problem. Millenials are the most mixed-up, indoctrinated, gender-bending generation of all of them. They have suffered the full brunt of the left-wing, PC, anything-goes BS, and are lost in a sea of nonsense and confusion because of it. They don't have the slightest clue how male-female relations are supposed to work. Plus, who would want to date some purple-haired, nose-ringed, fatty feminist?

From what I've seen though, the younger ones may be rejecting a lot of that nonsense. We'll see.

[G Larry]

"can't afford" = screwed up priorities.

Too much focus on the latest gadgets, clothes, and cars.

[knarf]

I think that is part of an all encompassing effort to destroy the family.

There's no America without families.

The proper rearing of a family has a scriptural base and without a scriptural teaching and understanding there is no scriptural base and no family and no America.

I could add a few more but you get the picture.

We all know American commercials teach men are stupid and women are the more capable and smarter.

You never hear about warlocks but there are plenty of witches around.

etc., etc.

[Richard Kimball]

So dating is becoming a luxury item like marriage. Dinner and a movie no longer is enough. I wonder how much of this is due to shows like "The Bachelor" where "courtship" involves over the top and expensive "dates".

Hadn't thought of that angle. With shows like "Bridezilla" and others, weddings became horribly glorified. There was one other where there were two competing wedding parties and the winner got a honeymoon vacation, and people were spending $30,000 or more to win a $5,000 vacation, while their friends sat around critiquing the weddings.

When my brother got married, it was at his wife's mother's house, there were a few friends and a home made cake. No tuxedo rentals, florists or paid bands, wet bars or DJs. Although lavish weddings have been a thing with the rich for years, weddings as performance art in the middle class are relatively new.

Dates can be relatively inexpensive. Showing off costs money.

[dljordan]

“So dating is becoming a luxury item like marriage. Dinner and a movie no longer is enough. I wonder how much of this is due to shows like “The Bachelor” where “courtship” involves over the top and expensive “dates”. “

How about we have millions of visa holders, permanent residents and illegals taking jobs? I’ve stopped assisting them at my job. If they want something I just ignore them.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Back in the day if you were lucky you could get Jim Lange to pay for your date.

[janetjanet998]

I guess paying $8 for a starbucks coffee everyday or getting a new Iphone upgrade every year or downloading apps is more important....the next thing you know they will claim they can’t repay their student loans majoring in communications or something..........................