More than half of young people in the US are single, survey finds

ABC News ^ | March 22, 2019 | Catherine Thorbecke

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Lonely millennials, you are not alone!

A new survey found that over half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 do not have a romantic partner.

In spite of the recent rise of dating apps, more young people than ever remain single, according to data released by the General Social Survey from researchers at the University of Chicago.

[rlmorel]

That’s sad, if true.

Damn.

[Texas Fossil]

I met my wife the last semester in college. Both of us graduated in 1970. I did not date much, but we both knew almost from the first date. We were married 47 years, lost her in early December, she died of heart failure.

For many years I could not remember, not being married to her. But I do now.

[Pollster1]

My church has more single men 18-25 than single women, although I suspect that is unusual. [We have a lot more women over 70 than men over 70, which is completely normal.]

[Tammy8]

Funny you should say that, one of my daughters did not marry until she was 31 because she was picky. She did marry an Army officer. He delayed marrying to get his career on track and they just happened to meet at a birthday party for one of my other daughters. They are very happy, she was used to living alone so she can handle deployments without melting down- seems to be the perfect match.

[crusty old prospector]

Mine, too.

[wardaddy]

What killed marriage more than anything has nothing to do with generational fault

It was The Pill

[Kenny Bania]

...or you could always try the “Crocodile Dundee test”.

[catfur]

Ummm..How can they socialize when they never look away from their phones?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I think it’s lack of religion, personally. If most millennials were devout Christians, they would already be married, because they would be learned in the way of sacrifice and commitment. If you’re deeply committed to God, it’s not that hard to deeply commit to another human being of the opposite sex, the way He wants it. Also, the hope that Christianity brings to people makes most of them more willing to have children, which are typically seen as blessings (Christian), rather than burdens (full-blown secular). That’s how I see it.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Well, it’s either the “freedom” of all those options, or the security of commitment. If I were able to actually keep the attention of a woman — sad that I cannot — I know which option I would personally prefer.

Here “freedom” is basically libertinism.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Of course it’s malign, what they’re doing. Whether it is LGBT advocacy or a schism between vaxxers and “anti-vaxxers”, they will use anything to overturn the tables of society so they can ultimately implement socialism.

The Long March through our institutions has been going on for about a century, now.

[rlmorel]

That’s pretty much how I have seen it as well for some time.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

You are an exceptionally decent woman. Since I recently became a Christian, you’re the ideal person for me, since you would stop me from giving in to the sex temptation. Unfortunately, you sound like a young woman, and I’m 52. I don’t know how much importance you give to age differences.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Why the hell can’t such women just turn us down? Most of us can handle rejection. But they just have to make a BIG PRODUCTION NUMBER of being asked out by men in the office that they find unattractive.

[Secret Agent Man]

Because men the find unattractive asking them out is offensive to them, how dare they think they can have a shot at them. They dont dress that way for those guys to ask them out. Hot guy flirts with them, they gigle and laugh and cant wait to drop panties later. Bottom 90% of guys they deem unattractive, that gets them a sexual harassment firing.

And the women wonder why guys wont ask them out and where all the good guys have gone. The hot guys are dating someone hotter, and the normal guys she shot down for years for one thing or another stay away or found someone else.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

It depends. I have a friend in Pennsylvania who is currently single. She had one relationship in high school and that produced a daughter, which she did not abort. Then she married a man and had two sons by him. She’s a good Catholic, as far as I know, so no c*ck carousel. The husband was abusive and had flings on her, but she persevered, until HE filed divorce papers recently.

Now she’s living on her own, and I would love to date her, if she were the least bit interested in dating ANYBODY. And marrying her would be right by Jesus, too, since her ex had slept around. So, some sexually experienced women are perfectly fine marriage material.

[Secret Agent Man]

If you want to marry into all that, god bless.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Nothing romantic about sex if you avail yourself to it on a daily basis with different partners. Heard any romantic songs from that age group? No.

Young love

[sparklite2]

Understanding Beautiful Women

     Jean Harlow would wear disguises
 to go out and pick up strange guys at
 night. Her men friends, who feared
sure rejection, wouldn't approach her in
 normal everyday life. So, Harlow married
 creeps and one beat her enough to cause
 kidney damage. Jean continued to work
in misery until she could no longer. Harlow's
 mother, a strict Christian Scientist, wouldn't
let doctors treat Jean until it was too late to save her.

Remember that the next time you sidle up to a beautiful woman,
and she tells you to get the hell away from her, the poor thing.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

She’s GOOD experienced, not BAD experienced, that is, hitting the bars and riding the carousel. I don’t want any of that noise.