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Wait.... that can't be right. Women were still being housewives and mothers. They could vote, but that was it. Feminism as we know it was still a good 20 years away. I have been told over and over on this forum that men didn't start rejecting marriage, women did. Women became feminists, entered the workplace, took over the colleges... and THAT was why men were drawing back. And when I said that men started it, and women began supporting themselves because they had to, I was told over and over by the men of Free Republic that No No No, women started this trend.

Men started rejecting marriage when the terms started to change to their detriment. You make the deal worse and worse and worse for someone you're going to reach a point when fewer and fewer of them will agree to make the deal.

Men started rejecting marriage when the terms started to change to their detriment.

According to this book, it started in the 1950s. How did the terms change in the 1950s?