Hmmm.
You know AgeofKnowledge, you yourself brought up several red herrings in this discussion.
Your argument throughout this thread has been that -
The rising decline of young man having never married shows that it is because of the terrible choices that women have led them to have – through a child support system and the eventuality of divorce.
Your basis for doing so has been the evidence of many papers, but on closer inspections the number of fallacies are quite astounding.
Well, honestly you haven’t shown us a single scholarly research paper either to corroborate your statements .
The only valid “scholar” worthy research findings that you posted were from the Pew Research Group.
The rest of your findings were from psychology blogs about male identity crisis, declining fatherhood, news article about a man's failure to pay alimony, a youtube video of the matrix and a family studies blog on young adult family issues [which has nothing to do with why men or women do not marry because it talks about issues in families that are already married] as well as an article titled Sexodus, which was absolutely ridiculous .
Quoting from there ---->
Part of the problem is unrealistic female expectations, says Valizadeh. “Getting laid with attractive women has become extremely hard for average men. Women today of average or even below average quality desire an elite man with above-average looks, muscles, intelligence, and confidence.
“If an average girl works hard enough, she will be able to have a one-night stand with a ‘hot’ guy every now and then because he happened to be horny and wanted an easy lay. The girl then thinks that she actually can get such a man to commit to her for the long term, and so doesn’t give the average guys a chance, holding out for the type of stud that she had a brief sexual encounter with in the past.”
[whut?]
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So, given their poor scholarship and how far behind an evaluated academic peer reviewed approval all this would be, I would only look at your link from the Pew Research findings.
While you mentioned the rising number of young men never marrying, you
failed to mention that the number of women not marrying have also increased.
Quoting directly from the article,
The dramatic rise in the share of never-married adults and the emerging gender gap are related to a variety of factors. Adults are marrying later in life, and the shares of adults cohabiting and raising children outside of marriage have increased significantly. The median age at first marriage is now 27 for women and 29 for men, up from 20 for women and 23 for men in 1960.[SUP]2[/SUP] About a quarter (24%) of never-married young adults ages 25 to 34 are living with a partner, according to Pew Research analysis of Current Population Survey data
None of this is related to a new movement of young men decided they were going to withdraw form a society to escape feminist oppression.
[This would be the essential manism and manosphere world, which is populated by many misogynists]
I would also wonder if homosexuality and it's widespread acceptance of it has not led to a breakdown of traditional views of marriage.
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Also, you made another statement about the relevance of marriage to the youth of today,
well again from the article, here's what it states
Despite, questions on the relevance of marriage, most Americans (68%) continue to believe it is important for couples to marry if they plan to spend the rest of their lives together.
A new Pew Research survey finds that about half of all never-married adults (53%) say they would like to marry eventually. This share is down somewhat from 2010, when 61% of never-married adults said they would like to marry someday. Roughly one-third of today’s never-married adults (32%) say they are not sure if they would like to get married, while 13% say they do not want to marry.
So your statement that most men do not want to marry is
false assertion.
Questions as to why they never married, these were the reasons
Among those who have never been married but say they may eventually like to wed, three-in-ten say the main reason they are not married is that they have not found someone who has what they are looking for in a spouse. Nearly as many (27%) say they are not financially prepared for marriage, and 22% say they are too young or not ready to settle down. There are no significant differences between never-married men and women in this regard.
So all in all, as 1still_waters rightly pointed out ,
you did create a bogeyman for real.
All this discussion and fear mongering. Sigh
For a reality that you constructed.
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