“It takes two to tango ...”
True.
I work with some of “the demographic” in question, BUT this is across the board amongst all women and men of a certain age, income and education level.
One of my 20-something co-workers remarked wistfully that she has never been a bridesmaid, although she talks about friends and family with children same age as hers. She is not married to her baby’s father and neither are her friends married to their baby daddies. These are white Midwesterners.
Same for several of my cousins’ kids. (They are just as melanin-challenged as I am, but low income and low education level, partly because their folks never grew up enough to give up drugs and alcohol.)
One of my black co-workers is VERY bitter about her boyfriend/fiance abandoning their son when the boy was about 8 years old. She’s very worried about the boy’s future.
Another black co-worker lost a nephew, a devoted single father, to a drive-by shooting.
It’s not one group or another that is suffering. It’s a whole generation across the country.
“One of my 20-something co-workers remarked wistfully that she has never been a bridesmaid, although she talks about friends and family with children same age as hers. She is not married to her baby’s father and neither are her friends married to their baby daddies. These are white Midwesterners.”
Society has turned young people against the idea of marriage. With the divorce rate what it is, and as messy as it is more and more are not willing to go into marriage. Except for the gays, and they too are learning extremely quickly how nasty a gay divorce can be. Later for that however.
“One of my black co-workers is VERY bitter about her boyfriend/fiance abandoning their son when the boy was about 8 years old. She’s very worried about the boy’s future.”
I know some white people in that boat. She was stupid. If she had married the man first and then he abandoned her she could have gone to court and sued him for abandonment. They have been made stupid from the system and are not able to think. It is just have sex, enjoy the moment now and really pay later.