So who are they married to if the men are single?
Women marry UP.
Men marry DOWN........................
If a young woman is hooking up with a man or men, but they aren’t dating, isn’t she still single?
I don’t know if I believe incels exist. If you don’t want to be celibate, isn’t calling yourself a bad strategy?
If you're not in a "relationship," are you single?
That could be anything: married, living together, dating.
This comment makes no sense.
while actual women:men in US population is about 51:49, for simple analysis, we can say its 50:50. The question then is - who are all these young women attached to, if not to young men? Older men? Are they Lesbians? their pets?
the article doesn't help explain it either, only offering other random, disconnected statistics to demonstrate the "crisis."
This is standard for American journalism today.
“signaling a larger breakdown in the social, romantic and sexual life of the American male”
No, it signals that young ladies nowadays are, by and large, skanks who would rather be just a “side piece” for one of the top tier of attractive men, than date someone who is actually in their league.
Christian men and women should be celibate, unless married.
Interesting article. I married at 18 to a man who was 44 because I was ready to be a wife and mom and no one my age was ready for that.
Going to college was not an option for me and neither was sleeping around.
I would be very interested in a solid historical study of this sort of thing.
In the past, a man would marry a woman, she might have a child or two, then die in childbirth. Not uncommon. The man would marry again. Might happen again. He might marry a third time. All the fairy tales with Stepmothers in them were there for a reason. Men often went through more than one wife. The flip-side of that is that Joe has three wives, and Sam never gets even one.
Also, a lot of men simply went seeking their fortune — joined the army for life, panned for gold in the west, logged trees in the great north woods, sailed away seeking whales in the South Pacific. Dangerous work and women didn’t tag along.
I can think of many reasons why, in the past, many men just never became attached to a woman. But by the same token, the women were more likely to become attached.
The reasons today may be different, but I’m not sure the phenomenon is entirely new.
can’t blame them...
the transmission threw everything in reverse...
Harems of brood mares all following the Alpha male they think they’re worthy of.
Your first point is more likely and these young women are dating and marrying divorced men with kids.
Just my guess.
Maybe it’s because so many young men still live at home playing video games instead of living life. It seems like the only “hands on” experience in life they have ever had involved a screen and their pants down.
Isn't that better than war?
Bad news. A bunch of young men who have nothing to lose......plenty of examples in history. We are heading down that direction
It could be that the definition of single means they are not dating anyone. The majority of women could be dating one or more men, hence they are not single.
They really need to clarify their definition of single, and non-single.
This sounds like “new math”. If we assume that for the most part we are talking about the same pool of monogamous people divided 50/50 between men and women, does the math even work? Or... the real story is about promiscuity and differing definitions of “in a relationship”
other option
more women in lesbian relationships.