1. divorce - All the Peter Pan males I know are the product of divorced homes. Everyone learns about marriage from their own parents.
2. Lack of a father's influence in teenage years. which is pretty much the result of number one plus illegitimacy.
3. Men hating mothers - These women disgust me. They laud divorce and tell jokes about men right in front of their own sons. No wonder their sons distrust women.
4. Fathers who won't do right by their children. That means be there and be head of the household. “Father” is an action not a title.
5.SEX is first and foremost, reproduction. Men and women are responsible for who the the other parent of their children is. When you have sex, you are agreeing that the other person can be the mother/father of your children.
6. Because sex causes children and children NEED a mother AND a father, marriage requires commitment.
7.Unfortunately, marriage is no longer about the needs of others but about the desires of the self. Men see marriage as a material transaction and want trophy wives/status symbols (and dismiss bad character in women if they have looks) and women want love and commitment from a sex they have been taught is dangerous and not worthy of trust (and dismiss bad character in men because they think this is normal).
Huh... Trophy Wife? Are you mad...? The very LAST thing I'd want is a woman who left her brain in her other jacket, with "huge tracts of land" that are knuckle-dragger magnets... I'll pass. As to a "material transaction"... Excuse me, but what planet are you from??? Marriage == Poor House for a guy these days. Get a GRIP! I'm looking for a PARTNER, not a dictator, not a social experiment, not a cocktail waitress, not a French maid!! A PARTNER!!!