[freeeee]

And not a single word of how men have seen their fathers, uncles and male friend's lives destroyed by inequitable divorce laws.

It just couldn't be that a man sees his male friends and family's life ruined, time and again, and refuses to be the next dupe.

Nope, it isn't cause of that. It's cause we're immature.

Hey Molly, next time one of your friends brags about getting the house, remember that she got it at the price of YOUR marriage.

[Hatteras]

"In my experience, the root cause of the epidemic lies with a collective failure of nerve among men our age."

Well THERE'S your problem. You're too old for men your own age. You need to set your sights on an older fellow who has a better chance of wanting to settle down. Men your own age are looking for women 5 years younger.

[wbill]

In my experience, the root cause of the epidemic lies with a collective failure of nerve among men our age

"No men want to marry me and get me pregnant. What's wrong with all of them?"

[Bon mots]

In my experience, the root cause of the epidemic lies with a collective failure of nerve among men our age.

WRONG!
Guys aren't stupid.
Why would they be in a hurry to sign a legal CONTRACT that more than 50% of the time ends in failure due to the woman, who knows that she will get the lion's share of assets, custody of the children and can use the court system to harass, intimidate and even imprison the man when or if things get bumpy.

A young man would have to be out of his mind to sign a standard marriage contract. This is the backlash.

Women are equal in the workplace and all that. But put one of those equal women in divorce court and it all changes.

Feminists and the majority of American and Western women regard modern men as little more than living, breathing ATM machines. So do the courts.

Just look at some of the backlash.

[Clemenza]

I know that you disagree here.

[nightdriver]

"...we have little option but to wait, busy ourselves with making the most of our careers and hope that Mr Non-Phobic Right eventually makes himself known to us before our ovaries pack up completely."

Does she have any concept of how the formal marriage means that a man puts the fate of his life into the hands of the biased, mean and liberal courts?

At any whim of the wife, she can dissolve everything he has worked for all his life.

I'm not amazed at the lessened rate of marriages, I'm amazed that there are as many marriages as there are in this age of womens' "liberation."

[untenured]

Bewley went on to talk about the whopping cost that older women having less healthy babies is putting on the National Health Service, and concluded that women must be persuaded to have babies younger.

Found in the index under, "Socialized medicine, unintended consequences of."

[Lazamataz]

The trouble is that very few of our male contemporaries are what you might call twig in beak.

Britain is wholely incomprehensible.

[TAdams8591]

"In my experience, the root cause of the epidemic lies with a collective failure of nerve among men our age.

Of course not every man his age is in a state of prolonged adolescence, but a critical mass of them are."

The above is very true and has been for a long time.

[thefactor]

this is crap, IMHO. while this is the case in maybe LA and where i live in NYC, this is not the case in much of fly-over country. or is it? i don't know.

[Radioactive]

The only problem with marrage is that people don't know what it takes to make it sucessful.

You need to work at it..it requires effort.

Anything worth while is worth working for.

If it rquires work, then you might as well forget it for most people.

[usurper]

In my experience, the root cause of the epidemic lies with a collective failure of nerve among men our age.

In my experience, it may not be a lack of nerve but rather a lack of faith in marriage in general.

But faced with a generation of emotionally immature men who seem to view marriage as the last thing they’ll do before they die.

I think the main reason that men refuse to pull the trigger is a realization that the deck is completely stacked against them. Most have friends who married young and got burned with years of spousal and child support.

Sad to say but marriage can be a very poor financial investment. No fault devoice has largely destroyed the institution.

[BraveMan]

This author should use the pseudonym "Mary Long".

[colorado tanker]

Women give guys all the sex they want, even living with them and keeping house. Guys get free sex, some cooking and cleaning and no paternal responsibilities. And the fact the guys enjoy this and don't feel like marrying a harpy to raise "the little brutes" is the guys' fault? You created your own mess, sister.

But you don't know the half of it. When your guy friends in their 40's finally decide to settle down, it won't be with you, it'll be with a younger woman. Hope you enjoyed your party decades. Have a great career, because that's all you're gonna have.

[Nam Vet]

As the father of 3 sons I know why these dumb broads are so clueless. As an example, when middle son was a junior in high school and went out with a girl the third time, she told him she wanted no more dates with him unless he started 'servicing' her. Starting with right then. Son drove her home never to date her again. He graduated OSU last year and now mostly runs a small design firm reporting only to the 2 partners.

The girl wants a winner of a guy with his head on right and wants to strike up the dating with him again. My son's attitude? Never happen. He says a great percentage of girls of quality have married their sweethearts this last year after college. What's really sad is youngest son is a sophomore in H.S. now and is really turned off by the high percentage of sluts at his school.

Bottom line is now that the feminists have their 'freedom' they don't much like the end results. What young man of quality wants a wife who serviced more meat by 21 than a Black Angus Restaurant serves on a busy weekend?

Nam Vet

[Age of Reason]

will they do it by settling for a much younger companion who falls far short of the intellectually equal . . . .

This babe still hasn't learned.

[B-Chan]

My wife is in her late 30s and we are both ready and able to have children, but our family business is too small to be able to afford health coverage for employees (i.e. us). Private individual care policies are either too expensive or do not offer OB/GYN, delivery, post-natal, and infant pediatric care due to liability concerns or both. We make too much money to qualify for welfare. And we are damned sure not going to have our child born in the illegal immigrant ward down at the county hospital!

Can anybody tell me how in the hell responsible parents are supposed to have children when they cannot obtain affordable health insurance?