Male Marital Outlook Linked to Upbringing

Yahoo/AP ^ | 6/24/2004 | DAVID CRARY

[John Lenin]

Is the truth starting to seep out ?

[sauropod]

read later

[Tax-chick]

Captain Obvious strikes again! And the usual suspects don't like the results ...

[nothingnew]

Another great study of the obvious.

FMCDH(BITS)

[John Lenin]

Round up the usual suspects. The denyers.

[nothingnew]

Obviously we both saw the obvious, obviously at the same time.

FMCDH(BITS)

[television is just wrong]

Ladies, we need to start treating our men better, BUY DR. LAURA'S BOOK.

[StoneColdGOP]

Among the single men, those interested in marriage were more likely to have had a father fully involved in their upbringing than those who were skeptical of marriage. The unmarried men raised by two parents also were more likely to be trusting of women than those raised in single-parent homes.

Another groundbreaking revelation, probably funded by tax dollars.

[Tax-chick]

I was almost a minute ahead of you :-).

[freeeee]

81 percent said they got married "because it was the right time to settle down."

Recipe for divorce. You marry because you've found the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, and that has nothing to do with what "time" you think it is. If you marry the closest warm body because "It's Time to Get Married", you're in for a rude surprise.

[television is just wrong]

Sometimes I find her irritating, but that book that came out earlier this year, "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands" should apply it to our sons too. We are companions to each other. We need treat men better, if we want in tact families. I am as guilty as the next woman when it comes to that.

[JohnnyZ]

The unmarried men raised by two parents also were more likely to be trusting of women

Ah, naivete.

The married man knows not to trust women but has generally learned how to deal with it ;)

[John Lenin]

Well duh, no man is going to get married until he feels it's the right time.

[Centurion2000]

Ladies, we need to start treating our men better

Nice to see some american women are starting to understand. Have a nice day ma'am.

[r9etb]

Recipe for divorce. You marry because you've found the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, and that has nothing to do with what "time" you think it is.

I think you're making a wrong distinction. When you've found "Her", I think you pretty much know who you're going to marry. After that, you still have to pick "the right time to settle down" with her. After college, say, or some "decent courtship interval."

I don't think most of that 81% decided to go out and find a prospective bride after the time was right.

[freeeee]

When you've found "Her", I think you pretty much know who you're going to marry. After that, you still have to pick "the right time to settle down" with her. After college, say, or some "decent courtship interval."

Good point.

[saveliberty]

Better yet, the study was probably also done in Mexico.

[Tax-chick]

The denyers.

Like this one:

Stephanie Coontz, a history professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and author of several books on families ... (Presumably not the kind of families any of us want to live in.)

[dljordan]

My cousin just got back from a hunting trip to Vietnam and made the comment that he now understands why no one wants to marry American women. He said the women over there treated him like a king (rich American husband material) and were catering to his every whim (don't go there). He also said the hunting was pretty good.

[Dan from Michigan]

Evergreen State College

I think that was Rachel Corrie's college.