Intelligent, discerning men of good character will continue to marry because the benefits outweigh the risks. The unfair family courts are an outlying risk.
The real reason young people aren’t marrying is because they don’t know how. Marriage and family has been denigrated in popular culture since the 50’s.
No man in the 19th century would have referred to a wife as a ‘ball and chain’. It would have been considered vulgar and crass and a man with such an attitude would have been ostracized from polite society.
Feminism/Playboyism (and they are inextricably linked) tore down the pedestal women used to occupy in the name of free love/sex and now people don’t even know what gender they are.
Until men (as a group) rebuild that pedestal and put women back on it and eschew irresponsible sex and vulgar living the beatings will continue.
Completely wrong. Until divorce is no longer a lob sided arrangement favoring women and until feminism dies down, marriage will continue to decline. Intelligent men are the ones opting out of marriage and only the ones that want kids at all cost, marriage risk be damned, are getting married. How old are you out of curiosity? You have no idea how much younger women have changed even in the last 15 years! Study after study shows after two partners women have a harder time bonding permanently and nearly every attractive college educated woman has had at least 30 partners by the time she gets married at 25, 30 years of age.
Sure, those men will marry - but they are a small subset of the population. Groups that supported marriage have been successfully marginalized or subverted by the left - with the Catholic Church first among them.
So true. Great comments in your post #359.
Frantically rebuilding the mound, I see.
Why pay full retail new-cow prices for a used cow who’s been giving her milk for free, to other farmers, for decades?