Why American men are getting less marriageable

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-ameri...ble-2018-1

Quote: If it seems like the number of complaints from your female friends about not being able to find a man is growing, we may finally know why. Somewhere between 1979 and 2008, Americans decided it was much less worth it to get hitched: the share of 25 to 39-year-old women who were currently married fell 10 percent among those with college degrees, 15 percent for those with some college, and a full 20 percent for women with a high school education or less.

This great American marriage decline—a drop from 72 percent of U.S. adults being wed in 1960 to half in 2014—is usually chalked up to gains in women's rights, the normalization of divorce, and the like. But it also a lot to do with men. Namely, economic forces are making them less appealing partners, and it ties into everything from China to opioids.

The most revealing data comes from University of Zurich economist David Dorn. In a 2017 paper with an ominous title ("When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Men"), Dorn and his colleagues crunched the numbers from 1990 to 2014. They found that employability and marriageability are deeply intertwined.

The flashpoint is a sector of the economy that politicians love to talk about: manufacturing. It used to be a huge slice of the employment pie: In 1990, 21.8 percent of employed men and 12.9 percent of employed women worked in manufacturing. By 2007, it had shrunk to 14.1 and 6.8 percent. These blue collar gigs were and are special: they pay more than comparable jobs at that education level in the service sector, and they deliver way more than just a paycheck. The jobs are often dangerous and physically demanding, giving a sense of solidarity with co-workers. Not coincidentally, these jobs are also incredibly male-dominated—becoming even more so between 1990 and 2010. But since 1980, a full third of all manufacturing jobs—five million since 2000—have evaporated, making guys less appealing as potential husbands in the process.

I think that's because people nowadays are focusing more on their careers and not how to form a family. They want to have a successful job with a big salary and when they do, they work a lot to keep that position or upgrade for a new one. Having a family will mean taking the time you work to put time into your family and hang out with them, show them support etc. You can't do best of both worlds so that means they are just focusing on themselves more than on other people.

Quote:I think that's because people nowadays are focusing more on their careers and not how to form a family.

what about the coming off of the blinding propaganda and we now see the white man for who he is..and women don't really see a life with that fella as so worthwhile anymore .....:ohmy: :ohmy:

I would have to say that some people are just not in that point in a relationship to get married. It might also be the fact that people really don't have time to find the right person while trying to maintain a good life.

leapjoy post=358386 Wrote:I would have to say that some people are just not in that point in a relationship to get married. It might also be the fact that people really don't have time to find the right person while trying to maintain a good life.

have you thought this through to any length and depth. this contains some long and serious implications....:ohmy:

Out of curiosity, what type of implications?

well ..population!

population numbers have been dropping for a long time in the USA, europe..all the white countries. they cant keep up...

but here you this development among a group of similar ones that will depress population further and faster....
if so-called drop in the attractiveness for men..attraction to/by whom women?

deh say so but we doh know for a fact. but homosexuality has been legalized and taught to chirren from kinder garden up! obviously men remain attractive if even more and more to other men

women likewise to other women. there is no vacuum in fact as there never is. if they saw men are less attractive we have to see what they mean. in fact less attractive will never be a factor. it will be/is in fact differentiating/changing attraction

society is changing into worse than sodom and gomorrah as the permutations of attractiveness for sex appears to of greater quantity now than back in the day. there are far more perversions now than earlier..with technological innovations too.

and the most adverse effect I see is on population in the west where the centre of all this is located

and from the report itself it is clear that what is happening has been planned and being driven by some social forces in whose benefit what is happening surely benefits

interesting. looks like some one..ones have plans for us

Dude, I think you are coming at this a bit to cynical and bias on this. I doubt homosexuality has anything to do with this. People just have higher expectations when finding a match for them, on top of that there is the case of people cheating on one another and simply having bad experience with relationships in the past.

I disagree with the assumptions made in this article. I live in a country where the manufactoring industry is booming, yet marriages continue to decline. What's the explanation for that? People tend to get married less - it's a worldwide trend, it's not only limited to America. I think it is related to the fact that everyone wants to be independent in this new age and live like a teenager well into their forties. It's not only the number of marriages that is decreasing, birth rates are plummeting too. This trend is observed in all developed countries. There are many contributing factors, but I don't think the fewer manufactoring jobs is one of them.

Sirius post=358453 Wrote:I disagree with the assumptions made in this article. I live in a country where the manufactoring industry is booming, yet marriages continue to decline. What's the explanation for that? People tend to get married less - it's a worldwide trend, it's not only limited to America. I think it is related to the fact that everyone wants to be independent in this new age and live like a teenager well into their forties. It's not only the number of marriages that is decreasing, birth rates are plummeting too. This trend is observed in all developed countries. There are many contributing factors, but I don't think the fewer manufactoring jobs is one of them.

well from this contribution we can at least agree that the issue is far deeper and more complex than leapjoy makes out

he accuses me of cynicism..about what..can one be cynical about facts.

when I point to homosexuality in the mix that is fact. the white man for the most part is homosexual. prove that comment wrong man and forget the cynicism.

then the question of biological mutation crops up. the white ethnic group of he human species is a mutation that does have the reproductive power of other ethnic groups and the factor in that issue appears to be the lack of melanin white people suffer from...as a result of the process by which their mutation came to be

also the type of 'development' the 'developed' world went through has produced a very negative lifestyle that Leapjoy did talk about that does not encourage normal, decent positive life style ...

my argument is that western developed life that grew out of crimes against humanity and has continued the same way to currently in which the very existence of humanity is threatened..is based on lies and wholesale plagiarism , and lack of understanding, the creation false gods and doctrinal lies that tales allegory and idealism that are supposed to be simple guides, as literal.

the people of the world therefore are miseducated, misguided, exploited, propagandized and conditioned by suicidal crap and corresponding life styles, that are anti life, anti nature..the consequences of which is the state of life and human environment that is raped.

there is little hope and positive expectation of life anywhere in human society on planet earth as we speak..mainly war and destroyed environment, little clean water to drink, pollution- no clean air to breathe, social division everywhere,,racism, gender war, class divisions..and the most horrific weapons poised and ready to blow the planet into space debris any minute now.

what this is actually is the perfect insanity of the white mutation in power now on planet Earth for 500 years in full flower. the state of the world is the result of unfettered white power for centuries during which human life has been filled with horrific crime against humanity for the hoarding of wealth for the white population..century after century of the despoliation of planet earth.

we are now at the end of it. and in such a devastating reality there s bound to be the fact that people will not want to have children at all..that the worst in people would have been brought out over these murderous and exploitative centuries so that now the nasty human personality is fixed, set up everywhere. and the nasty human personality spoils all that is positive in human life like relationships for human survival and continuation

in fact death has supplanted life in this way at least..that man and woman now see their own personal individual life as the irrevocable end that and given what they see humanity to be they are hardly interested in the question of continuation..of humanity going on. only white they are alive and young enough for unbridled hedonism are they interested. once they cant indulge anymore then its over. and that is for those who have the means

for those who do not have means then suicide is an option exercise more and more currently. for the poor the principle is 'make money or die trying!'

the only people who work for the future are some of the very rich..those who control. they make sure to have some children and make even more sure that they learn how to carry on the domination of the group over all of society. which make sure that the type of society that continues gets even worse than what we have now..that the rot evolves into even more rot

humanity's goose is cooked that's what. the crazy mutant white man has created an evil society that feeds on its own evil to evolve even more evil...self-destructive and self fulfilling. and humanity is about to eliminate itself as a result.

who the fuck wants to get married in these conditions. I see my brothers out there and what they give, how they are now. I don't have a male friend at this time that I expect any woman at all can love..they way they are. and the sisters know this because they are the same way too.

if a marriage occurs its because the couple do not know each other yet . it will take about 6 months to a year for that to happen and then it's divorce.

its the way we live man..and its intellectual content on a basis of the extreme exploitation of each other and the environment. there are results to everything we do, price to pay for everything. the consequences for capitalism and white domination is death. and the death also shows up in the most unexpected ways. we are looking for bombs to fall and engineered bacteria to escape Labs and kill everyone

but it is in the way we live too..social ways. and we are not producing. the human species is dying as we speak also from the product of social relations as they have been configured by the centuries of white domination of planet earth