Originally Posted by redietz View Post
I was 21.

In the 1970's, American men married at 22.5 years of age; women at 20.5.

In 2024, American men marry at 32; women at 30. This is, anthropologically, culturally, and biologically, a sea change. This is a completely different life arc from the 1970's. Putting off commitment to a mate and delaying family life for a full decade represents something unique in human history. The 2024 American male is something that has heretofore not really existed in terms of mating patterns (or conversely, lack thereof).

One could make the case that life in 2024 juvenifies both sexes and creates a population of self-absorbed "adult children."
Red. You, like KJ, can never just answer the question, and, so, you end up spouting simplistic nonsense for some self-justification. Consider at least the following.

Since 1970, out-of-wedlock birth rates have soared. In 1965, 24 percent of black infants and 3.1 percent of white infants were born to single mothers. By 1990 the rates had risen to 64 percent for black infants, 18 percent for whites. Every year about one million more children are born into fatherless families. If we have learned any policy lesson well over the past 25 years, it is that for children living in single-parent homes, the odds of living in poverty are great. The policy implications of the increase in out-of-wedlock births are staggering.