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More grim news for carousellers hoping to jump at the last minute.
Ever since my post in June Never marrieds piling up I’ve been curious what the data would look like for 2012. The US Census has the data posted, and I’ve updated the charts. I’ve also added two new...
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Suzanne Venker on what men are good for.
A year ago Suzanne Venker famously asked: Marriage: What’s in It for Men? …we must retract the message Boomers sent young women about female empowerment. Indeed, it isn’t a coincidence that marriage...
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Custody Demographics
I was curious about the demographics of family structure so I put together some more charts from the same data set as the last post. I’ve created two charts for each category, with the first showing...
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This won’t end well.
The Atlantic has a piece out by Leslie C. Bell titled Women in Their 20s Shouldn’t Feel Bad About Wanting a Boyfriend (H/T Free Northerner). Ms. Bell takes issue with Hanna Rosin’s assertion in Boys...
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Another crack in the narrative
NY Magazine’s The Cut has a new article out on a topic which is rapidly making the rounds: Meet the SWUGs of Yale: Women ‘Washed Up’ at 21 The striking feature image shows a coed with the tell-tale...
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Option A or option B?
When preparing for my last post I came across an interview of Kate Bolick by Edith Zimmerman at The Hairpin: Kate Bolick on Refusing to Settle (Part One). Zimmerman describes two options for dating...
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The elevation of romantic love and the wisdom of a beta orbiter.
Since my last post I’ve poked around a bit on James Russell Lingerfelt’s blog love story from the male perspective. The title of the blog itself gives a great deal away, starting with him referring to...
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Why men are withdrawing from courtship.
One of the more common refrains in the “Where have all of the good men gone!” lament is men’s increasing unwillingness to court women the way women expect to be courted. This is almost always framed...
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How should women respond to men withdrawing from courtship?
In my last post I explained why it makes logical sense for men to greatly limit the amount of “courtship” they offer women in today’s post sexual revolution sexual and marriage marketplace (SMP &...
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2013 never married data.
The 2013 Census data came out today, and Han Solo at Just Four Guys has already made good use of it. My initial take is that the trends we have seen over the last few years may be leveling off for the...
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Fear to greed.
As I’ve mentioned before, women delaying marriage are playing a collective game of chicken in order to avoid wasting any more of their youth and fertility on their husbands than absolutely necessary....
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Cane drives it home.
Check out Cane Caldo’s excellent post on the topic of young women finding a husband. Neither Saved Nor Spent, But Invested
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Stiff competition.
The competition for the title of the Christian Manosphere’s biggest cliché is heating up. Watch out Jenny Erikson, the upcoming movie Christian Mingle will be hard to beat: ‘Christian Mingle’ is about...
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Rationalizing sluttery as a path to marriage.
Meet Kristina from Rolling Stone’s Tales From the Millennials’ Sexual Revolution: …she doesn’t want to date; she wants to have sex, which thanks to the fact that she is cute and vivacious, she seems to...
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Rolling back the odometer
The AFP explains how Tunisian women are suffering the injustice of having to trick men into marriage after they tire of riding the carousel: Social pressures force Tunisia women to fake virginity …she...
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From celibate boyfriend to celibate husband (true love doesn’t wait).
Pugsley’s story shows the folly of the celibate boyfriend: When I met my then boyfriend-now husband, I told him right away that I was saving myself for marriage and he was fine with that because it was...
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Single men with jobs are becoming a scarce commodity.
The new Pew study has gotten a great deal of attention. Suddenly everyone is noticing that as women continue to delay marriage their prospects are getting less rosy. One finding which should come as no...
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A simple test.
Vox Day warns his readers not to place too much stock in a woman’s stated opinion on divorce when considering her suitability for marriage: Don’t pay much attention to her asserted opinion of divorce,...
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He left out harlots.
Deep Strength pointed out a blog post by NYC Pastor which has feminists (Christian and otherwise) up in arms: 10 Women Christian Men Should Not Marry. As Deep Strength notes, there is a massive...
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2014 Never Married Data
The Census finally got around to publishing the 2014 Families and Living Arrangements tables. As I’ve done in the past, my focus is on the trend of never married White women. Marriage rates vary...
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