I know several women who constantly tell their daughters that they should plan their life on the assumption that a man will not be there, and that they had better take care of themselves.
Then they are amazed when the very thing they trained and equipped for becomes their reality.
When discussing this with one woman, I told her maybe people should be focusing on training their daughters on how to build a good relationship with a man. She looked at me like I had two heads.
I'll get a caveat out of the way first -- A lot of young men today are no prizes: emasculated, video game playing, porn addicted hipsters. Many men need to do some work to make themselves worthwhile to gain a woman's attention.
Now, having said that, I will say that I think the far bigger problem is the attitude that young women have today. I think it's horrible. Repellent. Nasty. Bitter. Many of them are unreasonable bitches and darn proud of it. I have no idea how that happened, but I see far too much of it.
And I will end with that caveat -- many young men are fine upstanding citizens, and many young women and demure, feminine angels. But I live in MA and then men and women I see are generally not worthy of marriage and procreation.
This is exactly what happened with my ex. She was raised with the assumption that a man is unreliable and that she must put her career first. Well, she did that...and it cost her the marriage. Putting her husband as priority #5 and refusing even basic wife roles, it became her self-fulfilling prophesy.
If a woman is prepped to bail out at the first sign of turbulence, then that is what will happen. If a woman has an incentive to navigate her way through the turbulence, then that is what she will focus on.