Here's the Real Reason Why So Many Women are Single
Posted on 09/21/2015 6:14:44 AM PDT by BJ1
"I know lots of single men," Cara, 26, a resident of Brooklyn, New York, told Mic. "It's just... most are of little or no interest to me as anything other than a hookup."
Tired of old ways: The somewhat revolutionary notion that women are actually deciding not to marry is something that wouldn't be possible if the value of marriage itself hadn't changed drastically over the years.
"When women's life choices were highly constrained, they had little negotiating power," Pepper Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Washington, wrote for CNN. "They had to marry or were seen as damaged ... It's different now. While most women still want marriage, they don't want it at just any price. They don't want it if it scuttles their dreams."
That, in part, is due to marriage no longer being a must for women's social and financial standing. "I don't think hookup culture is damning for long-term commitment," Lisa, 27, said. "I think it's a response to the large obsolescence of marriage as an institution for women. We don't need to be economically or socially dependent on men."
That carries out through the numbers. Compared to their grandparents' generation, millennial women are significantly more likely to have a bachelor's degree and be a part of the labor force.
"I think a lot of us just don't think marriage is that important because it doesn't offer the security it once did," Norah, 27, told Mic. "It's not as necessary anymore because I can work. I can support myself."
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It's not that there aren't enough men to explain waning marriage stats — there also aren't enough women who want to walk down the aisle.
(Excerpt) Read more at mic.com ...
A few years back there was a popular joke about why MEN don’t get married- “Just find a woman you hate and give her your house”
That’s the reason- women and divorce courts made it so unfair to men
Now women are complaining?
tough
Pepper Schwartz? I wonder what her “inside” name is.
When God’s design is mocked, ridiculed, and even His people scoff at it, that society doesn’t have much time left.
Women’s “Sex and City” lifestyles ... coming to a church by you ... soon !
Works for me! I want nothing to do with them. The good women are taken and the leftovers are drunks, drug addicts, suffer from narcissistic Facebook personality disorder or are living on someone’s couch and flaking on commitments.
I do not know the women that have made the decision to forgo marriage but I will predict a long, lonely and difficult life for most of them.
Life is simply easier when there are two to carry the burden or share the joys over the long journey we call life.
Marriage is not only being mocked in our culture,
it is being desecrated (gay mirage).
The writing’s on the wall, America.
> “I think a lot of us just don’t think marriage is that important because it doesn’t offer the security it once did,” Norah, 27, told Mic. “It’s not as necessary anymore because I can work. I can support myself.”
Oh so now you admit you were just using us all along, eh?
You’re not listening—or, in this case, reading—are you? This isn’t about women not having a chance to marry, but coming to a similar conclusion to the men you allude to—deciding that it’s not necessarily for them.
fat, used up sluts, with an attitude.
I cant imagine why any guy wouldn’t want to marry these women!
/s
I think there is something to this nowadays.
In my office there are several attractive unmarried women in their mid-20’s with absolutely no desire for marriage. None of them are religious or conservative in the slightest, but they’re not mannish-feminist types either. Nearest I can tell, they just want to have fun in life and don’t seem interested in the next five years...
Well, that and Uncle Sam makes a fine sugar Daddy.
“Pepper Schwartz? I wonder what her “inside” name is.”
Do you remember Faith Popcorn?
;^)
I think it is the fact that we live in a shrinking economy.
There aren’t opportunities for men to afford marriage.
The difference between an expanding economy and a shrinking one is the difference between choosing your own seat and musical chairs....
Well duh. Women in their 20’s getting as much sex as they want without a relationship? Whoodathunk it?
If a guy can hook up regularly with a girl why commit to marriage.
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