by hoser 18 Replies latest social current
This is the latest problem in North American society. Mating inequality. There are now more women college graduates than men in the US. Women with college degrees don’t like to marry men without degrees. The theory is that there will be a lot of frustrated single lonely men that could destabilize society.
I see a lot of spinsters and single moms in the future as well.
What a mess.
The well educated young women I know have no problem with marrying or jumping in the sack with a rough & tough looking, well-built "blue collar" kind of guy. These guys are well paid here (mostly union jobs) and most are built like they live at a gym, which I imagine gives them pretty good stamina (if ya get what I'm saying).
Interesting comment DOC. The report was presented on CNN by a university professor. Maybe he’s trying to drum up business for his school.
There are now more women college graduates than men in the US. Women with college degrees don’t like to marry men without degrees.
Remember...woeful predictions sell advertising. If this is in fact true, these ladies will soon get over themselves once the right guy comes along. Most women I've met admire men who can actually do something tangible and practical. Most college graduates will tell you that a diploma isn't all it's cracked up to be and not having a degree doesn't mean a person is ignorant.
Crisis Averted !
I hold 2 college degrees. I have more respect for people who earn a living through a trade, who build, or repair. I see jobs that require a Masers Degree that start out at $40,000.00 a year while plumbers and electricians make six-figure incomes.
The more you have of an item the less value it has. The U.S. has a bumper crop of college grads and few people who actually make things work.
Most college graduates will tell you that a diploma isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Unless the degree gets the graduate into a specific career (medicine, law, education, pharmacy, etc) they often find out it's just a piece of paper that came with a huge payment book to repay their school loans and sadly doesn't necessarily get them into a job/career? that pays any better than a plumber/carpenter/electrician who had the benefit of being paid to learn as an apprentice tradesman.
The theory is that there will be a lot of frustrated single lonely men
NOPE!
Here is what is actually happening. All my friends who vary in age between 24-32 years of age are single, either millionaires or just very well off. None of them want to get married. None of them want kids. To insure no mistakes happen-(vasectomies)
Why in the hell would a Successful Male - single millionaire want to invite the government into his relationship with women by getting legally married??
There is no lack of single beautiful women who are willing to date my friends. Every day some girl turns 18. They have enough money to fly to any State and meet up with any girl and spend a day, week, month, with these gorgeous women.
The culture of getting married, having a bunch of kids, raising them till they are 26-30 - or more just doesn't make sense anymore to our generation.
And in the majority of cases the children of couples are ungrateful or just go out into the world to start their own families---which is the way it's supposed to be.
On top of this, The average marriage length in the US is 8.2 years. And 44.6% of marriages end in divorce. So if one of my friends whose net worth is 10 million that he built himself, and he gets married to a girl whose net worth is 0.00 - and she divorces him in one year and has one child----and maybe the child is not his, the laws on divorce favors the woman and she automatically gets Half or more of his net worth for one year of marriage. NOT WORTH IT.
Plus I've met 80 year old millionaires who have been single all their life, and avoiding the stress of marriage and kids, they look like they are 40 years old. Plus they are never lonely. Some of them pay for High escorts girls who are of legal age.
So no, there is no reason for single men to be frustrated and lonely.
Traditionally it's been true that women prefer to marry "up."
It was certainly an important factor when women were relegated to the sphere of the home and depended on men for survival.
However, now that women can be independent financially, it's not so important. It might take awhile to unlearn traditional behavior which is, after all, transmitted socially and was actually good advice in their grandparents' day.
I have a degree and my husband works blue collar. He went through a 5 year apprenticeship which was not nothing, either.
There are lots of relationships like ours: teachers and cops, teachers and firefighters, teachers and tradesmen, teachers and utility workers. There are 4 teachers just on my block, including 3 of us in a row and one across the street!
yeah, lead the self centred life and bring in the prolific procreators from 3rd world countries to keep up the population count, the consumption going, but destroying the most advanced civilisations that developed on the shoulders of the old fashioned parents. (only a few of the most aggressive are flown back promptly)
societies suicide by singleness.
yeah, lead the self centred life and bring in the prolific procreators from 3rd world countries...
How is not having kids any more "self centered" than having kids is ? Seems to me most of the time when someone intentionally brings a child into the world, it's because they wanted/needed a child to further their own personal happiness or to answer some inward calling/urge. I've never heard someone say that they wanted a baby because they wanted to be generous and share the gift of life with someone. Typically (not that it's wrong) they're thinking of their own pleasure or how the baby's life will impact, their own.
