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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.

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TOPICS: Society
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To: packagingguy

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-54840971


41 posted on 03/24/2025 6:21:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Legal abortion and further back, legal chemical birth control made this probable. Marriage works as a partnership with divided tasks. The woman takes care of the home and the man earns the living. That is the biological structure of creation. The more that women think they can and should do all the muscle things that men from the beginning have done they forget about the protection that the married man ideally provides his family as well as the products of the hunt and of labor the fewer babies are born and the fewer marriages occur.


42 posted on 03/24/2025 6:21:33 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe cv)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Is there a picture of her?


43 posted on 03/24/2025 6:21:39 PM PDT by fso301
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not at all realistic.

No ability to accept responsibility.

Not socialized for marriage and family.


44 posted on 03/24/2025 6:22:37 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: arthurus
Eventually, our society will become more religious.

Secular families won't be having children.

45 posted on 03/24/2025 6:22:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Fai Mao

And what about the men? A surprising amount of American men are mama’s boys and no woman can measure up.


46 posted on 03/24/2025 6:23:12 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: ClearCase_guy

I take it you are single?


47 posted on 03/24/2025 6:23:14 PM PDT by TexasGator (11111111/)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Did you try, really try? Or ___ test, insult, the high Alpha? 🚨


48 posted on 03/24/2025 6:23:18 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: FlingWingFlyer
How do we know it’s the women. What if it’s the men who have given up?

That women are giving up on marriage is just the latest lie in an attempt to reverse the declining birthrate.

We live in a misandrist matriarchy. The CommuFeminists of the 4th wave played themselves. The power brokers are desperate to turn things around because the swarthy "Replacement Americans" they imported can't keep the system functioning.

Too late; no refunds. These men aren't coming back. They didn't walk away to teach society a lesson, they walked away because they learned theirs.

49 posted on 03/24/2025 6:23:59 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: JSM_Liberty

I blame the courts, divorce is easy and almost always expensive for men. I read 70% of all divorces are started by women. So yes, I agree,women are 10 years behind men in the mgtow movement.


50 posted on 03/24/2025 6:24:03 PM PDT by Ikeon ( Why don't they, do what they say? Say what they mean? One thing leads to another. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ya, no.


51 posted on 03/24/2025 6:24:47 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: TexasGator

Happily married for many decades. I’m old. When I was dating, things were different. I see what changed and I’m not afraid to comment on it.


52 posted on 03/24/2025 6:24:52 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: MinorityRepublican

What the article neglects to mention is, no man asked these harpies.

To all the American women, it isn’t us, it’s you.


53 posted on 03/24/2025 6:25:14 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: packagingguy

Override the paywall:

https://archive.is/Lgk2V

Then put the article url in the text box.


54 posted on 03/24/2025 6:25:33 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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. Meanwhile, too many young men are falling behind, stuck in a culture that discourages responsibility and ambition. And here’s the kicker—many of these young women were raised by single mothers. That tells you something about the state of the family, the culture, and what happens when traditional values get tossed aside.


55 posted on 03/24/2025 6:27:12 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Chickensoup

Bad idea. Put the kids first and don’t have them. Get a dog.


56 posted on 03/24/2025 6:28:12 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: Round Earther
Meanwhile, too many young men are falling behind, stuck in a culture that discourages responsibility and ambition.

So why's that the case? 🤔

57 posted on 03/24/2025 6:28:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: T.B. Yoits

You really nailed it here. Thanks. Thanks for using the term misandrist also. You may have taught the zero I.Q. far-left “media” types a new word.


58 posted on 03/24/2025 6:29:55 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Bureaucratic District "Judges" are the greatest threat to America and Americans.)
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To: Ikeon
I blame the courts, divorce is easy and almost always expensive for men. I read 70% of all divorces are started by women.

Women gets paid to divorce. Men gets punished.

So the government is incentivizing women to divorce.

59 posted on 03/24/2025 6:30:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: vivenne

Not ideal I agree.

But I understand that a man who wants a family will go to extreme measures.


60 posted on 03/24/2025 6:30:49 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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