Posted on 06/09/2022 10:17:39 PM PDT by Jonty30
Why does the Millennial generation (people born between 1982-1996) have lower marriage and birth rates than previous generations? And when Millennials do get married, why is it at a later age than previous generations? Prominent periodicals like The Atlantic, Time, Washington Post and others have published articles trying to explain the phenomenon.
Some claim that the cause is economic – we graduated from college into the 2008 Recession, we have a lot of student loan debt, and we receive stagnant wages as housing prices soar. Financial difficulty prevents young people from getting married. This is of course part of the problem, but it is wrong. People got married at a higher per capita rate during the Great Depression and the brutal wars in history, which were much tougher than anything we endured.
Some argue that the cause is increased education, feminism and careerism. People want to focus on establishing a stable career in their youth, including women in equal if not greater numbers than men, which makes them delay family formation. This is also a partial explanation. There is no reason a person cannot pursue education and career while married. If the issue is about focus, we would argue that living “the single life” is even more of a distraction from schoolwork. Even if we concede the argument about focus, it still does not explain the large number of Millennials who are now in their late 30s, well-established in their careers, but still remain unmarried.
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Sadly, our culture says the exact opposite. It tells women to sloot it up and they have all the time in the world...until they dont.
“women are told that marriage is demeaning but a meaningless cubicle job and a series of flings with men she has no intention of committing to, or having children with, is *empowering*.”
Excellent.
You’ve heard of “wife goggles” right?
Marry her when she’s young and cute, and if your marriage lasts, there’s a good chance you’ll look at her at age 60 and still consider her the hottie of your youth.
Women have a similar thing with flings.
First, realize that to a woman, a fling might as well be marriage, because she was sleeping with him, which is what she’d be doing if they were married, right? It’s not *her* fault he didn’t commit.
So a woman, considers her marriage value, as being able to get, and to deserve, the hottest stud she had a one-night-stand with, when she was sleeping around.
What she doesn’t realize, is that sexual market value is not MARRIAGE market value. In order to get attention, (not commitment) from a hot man, she has to sleep with him.
That’s her sexual market value: he doesn’t have to be as picky about her looks or character (as far as he knows) if it’s going to be over the next morning, or in a week or two.
If she met the same hawt stud, and played games with him the way she did with men who were trying to court her, she’d have been NEXTed so fast, she wouldn’t even have made it to the men’s room in the bar, let alone going home with him.
But women will never ever EVER admit this to themselves: and they will attack you if you mention it to them.
Marriage followed by no-fault divorce means men pay full price for a used cow, then continue to make payments for someone else to take the rest of the milk.
But remember, man up and marry those sluts!
But remember, *men* are the ones who won't grow up, amirite?
(Look at the financial condition of the average single guy vs. single girl. Which one is constantly "traveling" and buying new clothes?)
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