Wedded bliss not a priority for U.S. bachelors

Whatever happened to "if I do it with you, you won't respect me" ?? The tone of this article sure proves that the men they interviewed really don't respect the women they're with..and the women are proving that they aren't worthy of it! This is just another tired old rendition if "why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free."

Time for the ladies to get a bit old-fashioned and tell the guy that she's "not that kind of girl." Sure they could go and mess with somebody else, but at least she won't be picking up some hideous STD.

I'm 46 now......and if I knew at 26 what I know now I'd not have married.

The laws are so skewed as to make it the stupidest decsion a young man could make. Statistically, it's even worse than that.

A man doesn't stand a chance in family court, and women can pull the plug because "I don't love you anymore"......while you pay for both lawyers, spousal support, and child support that equals 49% of your GROSS income.

Even then you're most likely to see your children only ever other weekend.

Our society has made the disincentives so severe I often wonder why men marry at all. Sex and companionship are MORE available without it........and it's likely you'll maintain control over the fruits of your labor.

There should be a course taught in highschool. When you sign this "unwritten contract" called marriage, you are pledging 50% of your GROSS income for the next 30 years to this woman, NO MATTER WHAT SHE DECIDES TO DO.

What fool's up for that?

When they finally do marry, they claim it's "for love," but really their hormones are boiling over and they can wait no longer. So, they settle for whoever they're dating at the time.

That may well be a possibility. Are you one of these people, speaking from personal experience?

I do think that it would be a lot more practical and romantic if couples waited, out of respect for each other, for marriage. STD's are not something to fool with. Unfortunately today, when a girl goes out with a guy, he almost expects her to sleep with him and gets all huffy if she says No. Don't ask me how I know that. Women's lib and the sexual revolution gave women less respect, not more.

I am really sorry that you got messed over by the wrong woman. It's dames like that who give the decent women a bad name.

Men won't commit to marriage because they enjoy a sexually active single life in a social climate that doesn't push them to marry, a new report says

And the divorce laws in this country are stacked totally to the woman's advantage ..... or as Eddy Murphy put it ... HALF !!

and then some .... children ... men might as well be ambulatory ATM's for the women and kids in a divorce.

Very few people are going to commit to a marriage just so they can get some. It makes no sense.

Of course it makes no sense if you're getting married just for sex. That's the whole point of this article, which shows people to be pretty shallow. Most people I know who get married do so because they love each other and want to give themselves to each other for life.

38 and still single (and childless) here.

I mean, why bother? I don't want kids. I'm a white, politically unconnected guy in the post-affirmative action sewer system that is Bill Clinton's America - which means any children I have will probably wind up worse than me (especially living in a Stalinist state like New Jersey).

Besides, it's not as if getting laid is a Herculean task even for a bum.

The "secret"? Easy. Find someone divorced (like half the population) and just be the opposite of what her first husband was:

Be somewhat sober, somewhat attentive, laugh every once in a while at her unfunny quips - and pick up the tab.

That should do it. It doesn't take much.

Granted, they didn't teach this at the parochial school I attended as a kid - but I didn't get raped either so I'll consider myself lucky.

Even if I wanted to get married the choices are limited. See, I had to go to work right after high school -- as opposed to staying in school ON THE PUBLIC DIME like many women and professional minorities who are able to pile up credentials ON MY NICKEL -- so all I have in an A.S. degree which I got at night (and, naturally, paid for myself).

And just as naturally isn't worth a bucket full of cold piss.

To all the "professional" women out there I say tough shit. I'm the byproduct of what happens when government starts mucking around with the natural order of things.

Women: Happening careers, no husbands.

Men: Shit jobs, not husband material.

Just the way the Democrat Party wanted it all along.

I HATE the Democrat Party!

Oh yeah, I did have an ill parent to care for too - but the Democrat Party doesn't factor that in when they pass out the spoils of affimative action.

Democrats -- being the jerkoffs they are -- just assume all white males have had the world given to them (just like most of them have).

Did I mention how much I hate Democrats?

As for now, I have to get my lumpen proletariat ass to bed for a few hours so I can get up, go to my dead end job which I loathe, and pay confiscatory taxes into the welfare state gutter so all of lifes "victms" can be made whole.

Wait - I'm about to break in "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" - which is the perfect tune for America's newest sharecropper class.

My suggestion for the ladies out there looking for a husband? Screw it. Don't bother. Get a dog instead (if they'll let you have one at your condo). After all, doggies are loving, loyal and don't ask for much...

...kinda like most white guys. ;-)