re: Number of unmarried young men is surging

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young men are shunning marriage

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It's much easier to avoid any sort of responsibility by shunning marriage and playing video games all night. Their helicopter and bulldozer mommies taught them that nothing was ever their fault, and everyone else was just mean to them, therefore they have never borne responsibility for anything. Why start as an adult?

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It's much easier to avoid any sort of responsibility by shunning marriage and playing video games all night.

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As opposed to the boomers who sit around watching TV while their stay-at-home wives do everything for them?

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That’s probably a good point.

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Brother it’s what I do is try to shed some light.

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FYI.... Been married for 18 years. Have a 13 year old kid....Mine is a rarity in today’s world. Still think most marriages end in divorce........................Marriage is a failed institution.....why not just live together?

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It will eventually lead to only the wealthy marrying.

All the 20 something guys I work with, except one, have said they aren't sure they ever want kids. And if you don't want kids, the motivation to get married is far less.

I think the lack of desire to start families is a big reason for this.

The only reason I wanted my sons to marry was because I wanted grandkids. In wedlock for the record.

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I’m now a skilled tradesman. I live on my own, with no debt and money in the bank… but I have a non-zero chance of dying at work, and overwhelming overtime, which I can’t get out of. For the privilege, I had to be turned away at the door by multiple other trades, because they refused to work with some college boy.



By the way, women consider blue collar jobs trashy, no matter how well they pay, so there’s a distinct possibility that I continue to work massive overtime for nothing. They turn me down when I ask them out on dates, and then say there are no good men nowadays.



To put this another way, I gave up my twenties to extreme working hours that didn’t help. I’m now doing the same thing to my thirties. It will be decades before all the progressive hiring managers (usually women) retire or die, so there’s no way out.

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It's a little complain-y but...

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White collar or blue, it all ends like this: A young man, whether he is a NEET or not, always ends up at an event with some older people. After everyone has had a few, some middle-aged woman decides instead to complain about kids nowadays.



She declares loudly in front of him that young men nowadays are pathetic and disgusting. She lists her single daughter’s many accomplishments in university and then white-collar work. She never mentions how her daughter got women’s scholarships. She forgets that her daughter was raised conservative, and was taught that affirmative action was wrong, then accepted it in five-figure sums.



The young men aren’t good enough for her daughter, she continues, because they can’t get a real job. Of course, her daughter got this young man’s job through affirmative action. The female hiring manager may have rejected that young man’s application to the same position (this happened to me with a girl I just met).



Sometimes, these unhappy mothers put down their cocktail, look you in the eye, and say, in mixed company, “You aren’t good enough for my daughter.”

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You know, the men who treat their daughters like royalty and their sons like potential prison inmates.

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I've known numerous men who treated their daughters like royalty. But I dont many (if any) that treat their sons like "prison inmates". If anything, they are far too lenient on their son's poor behavior. At least until junior gives dad a reason to find fault. And once a kid does that, they pretty much deserve their parent's ire.