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American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage
The Wall Street Journal ^ | March 21, 2025 | Rachel Wolfe

Posted on 03/24/2025 5:58:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

After a handful of underwhelming relationships and dozens of disappointing first dates, Andrea Vorlicek recently called off the search for a husband.

The 29-year-old always thought she’d have found her life partner by now. Instead, she’s house hunting solo and considering having kids on her own.

“I’m financially self-sufficient enough to do these things myself,” said Vorlicek, a Boston-based accountant. “I’m willing to accept being single versus settling for someone who isn’t the right fit.”

She sees her plans for an independent future as making the best of a lousy situation. “I don’t want to sit here and say I’m 100% happy,” Vorlicek said. “But I feel happier just accepting my reality. It’s mentally and emotionally a sense of peace.”

American women have never been this resigned to staying single. They are responding to major demographic shifts, including huge and growing gender gaps in economic and educational attainment, political affiliation and beliefs about what a family should look like.

“The numbers aren’t netting out,” said Daniel Cox, director of the survey center at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank. He ticked off the data points: More women than men are attending college, buying houses and focusing on their friendships and careers over dating and marriage.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Society
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To: GreatRoad

She is living in Boston. It is a mistake looking for a woman in Boston.


101 posted on 03/24/2025 7:03:05 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: MinorityRepublican

No true Alpha, will wonder through a used car lot, and step in goo 🧬


102 posted on 03/24/2025 7:03:40 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Think of her kids. Raised by a single mom. She has absolute power over them. They will probably slash their wrists.


103 posted on 03/24/2025 7:04:50 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: frank ballenger

On the bright side, at least the kids weren’t aborted.


104 posted on 03/24/2025 7:07:49 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Round Earther

Yes. The women want absolute power. They want their share of the top 10% of jobs. Bricklayers, no, plumbers, no. fatalities in battle, no.


105 posted on 03/24/2025 7:08:59 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: lodi90
These women can’t attract men they perceive as high value because those caliber men are not interested in them.

49er: A four who thinks she's a nine.

As Kevin Samuels would say, "you can't make this sh_t up" when an obese 40-year-old woman with four kids from three fathers claimed, over the chirps of her ceiling bird, that she deserved a "high value man"; over six feet tall, earning six figures per year, and has six-pack abs.

His recommendation would normally be "buy a dog and die alone".

106 posted on 03/24/2025 7:11:29 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MinorityRepublican

A declining population coupled with AI replacing more and more labor with a shrinking of bureaucracy and regulation may well make for a steadily increasing standard of living.


107 posted on 03/24/2025 7:11:44 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe cYc)
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To: FamiliarFace
On the bright side, at least the kids weren’t aborted.

Not all death is physical.

108 posted on 03/24/2025 7:13:34 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: FamiliarFace

Were they ever able to have children?


109 posted on 03/24/2025 7:13:44 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: arthurus
A declining population coupled with AI replacing more and more labor with a shrinking of bureaucracy and regulation may well make for a steadily increasing standard of living.

Good point. I didn't think about that. The transition to an AI economy will be easier because we're an aging society.

110 posted on 03/24/2025 7:13:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Vermont Lt
Israel has the Ultra Orthodox to help boost their population numbers. We have two large groups: Mormons and Amish/Mennonites, who still have large families. There are also traditionalist Catholics and evangelical Christians, often Calvinists, who have large families, go to conservative churches, often homeschool, and the husbands work in trades or small businesses. Mormons and Amish/Mennonites have a geographical center: Utah and Ohio/Pennsylvania, respectively. I read a prediction that by 2100. Mormons will be a major force not only in Utah but Wyoming, Idaho, and Nevada as well. The Mennonites and Amish will be a large element not only in Ohio and Pennsylvania but in Indiana, Michigan, New York, and West Virginia as well. The cat and box wine women will not reproduce nor will the soy boys. The conservative Catholic and Protestant families may also become a force in areas like the Idaho Panhandle.

If Trump can stop illegal immigration and a President Vance continues this policy, the second generation of immigrant parents will assimilate as did the Italians,Poles, Germans, etc.

111 posted on 03/24/2025 7:13:57 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Round Earther
Look around, folks—young women today are outpacing men in college graduation rates, they’re earning more, they’re making smarter choices, and they’re more mature...

If women were smarter and more mature, far fewer of them would be single mothers to offspring from different fathers.

112 posted on 03/24/2025 7:15:29 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Wallace T.

We have the Ultra Orthodox in Brooklyn. They’ll continue to grow.


113 posted on 03/24/2025 7:15:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: alternatives?

“Come on man, she has earned a man of her dreams.”

No, no, it’s the “paawtna of her dreams”.


114 posted on 03/24/2025 7:18:06 PM PDT by BobL (The people who hate Trump demand that you hate Russia)
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To: Chickensoup

“I see many men who are hard workers who have bought homes and toys.”

I spend a great deal of time on a college campus and see many motivated young men who strive for success. There are also many in the military and trade schools who are determined to achieve and work hard.

Meanwhile, far too many are sitting at home, doing nothing productive.


115 posted on 03/24/2025 7:18:45 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: frank ballenger

Given family courts and divorce, I can somewhat understand that.


116 posted on 03/24/2025 7:19:12 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Wallace T.

Even secular Jews in Israel reproduce beyond replacement level.

https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/the-ettinger-report/demographic-reality-contradicts-conventional-wisdom/2025/03/10/


117 posted on 03/24/2025 7:19:29 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Home pregnancy kit:


118 posted on 03/24/2025 7:20:32 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

nooooo please please save the planet!!! and don’t reproduce!!!


119 posted on 03/24/2025 7:22:07 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Jonty30
men in their 20’s are celibate

You have to "hand" it to them.

120 posted on 03/24/2025 7:22:57 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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