Single and happy, and I do get irritated by the presumption that something is wrong with me for being so. The author of the article sums it up as "committment-phobic," as if preferring the single life is some sort of mental pathology. It isn't. Nor is marriage merely an approved social venue for the physical sex act. Even a crusty old bachelor like me knows perfectly well there's one heckuva lot more to a relationship than sack dancing. One would hope that might dawn on pop psychologists, too.
The researchers also found that young men are often wary of marriage because of worries that they will marry the wrong person, be forced to make too many compromises or take on too many burdens as a husband, or suffer huge losses if the marriage ends in divorce. An ex-wife will "take you for all you've got" and "men have more to lose financially than women" were common refrains. Bluntly, the cost of doing business with women has risen dramatically with feminism. No wonder guys won't commit, you'd have to be crazy to lock yourself into the death grip of most American women.
Reading betweeen the lines, the singles ads you see are like "Lesbian BBW with attitude looking for smart, handsome affectionate man ONLY if he has a great job. Want to have babies, then get divorced, after which I will keep the kids and your paycheck." At what point do guys get smart and just dump the biatches.