Gen Zs who are 2020 Covid HS Grads and 2024 College Grads - "I'm engaged" Trend
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Anonymous
It’s not impossible, but usually you are going to a new geography for grad school so you need your SO to be OK with that, even if there aren’t great career options. I personally was moved to 4 different locations for a career before 30…married at 28 in the 4th location, but would have been much harder to just accept a promotion and move with a spouse if married at 22. |
Anonymous
| Its still a huge adjustment and act of love to relocate for a spouse but getting easier with increased options of remote work. My DH and many of my friends of both genders did their grad school or training after marriage. You have to learn to balance personal and professional lives, instead of ignoring one. |
Anonymous
| Biology doesn't change with changing demands of higher education and careers. You are only young once. |
Anonymous
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"team found that nearly half of young adults felt like no one checked in on them in a way that showed they “genuinely cared.” This was related to loneliness, which is also found to be associated with anxiety and depression
“Those numbers are shocking to me,” said Batanova. “We’re seeing so many young people feel more lonely and like they don’t matter.” |
Anonymous
Actually, biology in the way you're using the term does change. Everything is in a constant state of change. |
Anonymous
All the stats point to gen z putting off marriage but that won't stop some people from wishing for regression. A lot of weirdos seem to have this vested interest in showing that "tradition" is better, and they think that claiming young people are rejecting progress will make it true. It won't. |
Anonymous
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I don’t see why OP’s daughter shouldn’t get engaged when she has been together with her boyfriend for 4 years and they have now graduated college. They could be engaged for 2 years or more while they start their new jobs.
It would be different if they had just met or are still in college. |
Anonymous
This^. |
Anonymous
These are collective results, posters sharing their observation are mostly talking about young couples from affluent backgrounds, supportive families and promising careers. Average young person is facing student loans, credit card debt, unemployment, underemployment, inability to afford housing, unclear future, dating dilemmas, etc. Our circumstances decide our choices. |
Anonymous
Affluent GenZs are even less likely to get married young. Sorry, but these anecdotes are nothing more than anecdotes. |
Anonymous
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Nobody is claiming that majority of young people are getting engaged or married in their early 20's.
The average age of a college student is 26, but the normal age range to graduate is 23–29 and more than 60% of undergraduate students take six years to finish their degree, and nearly 30% drop out before earning their degree. |
Anonymous
I am gen X, and I agree with this take. People thought that they cracked the code with delaying marriage, and it obviously does solve some problems but it also creates some different ones. So, we are back to square 1. |
Anonymous
| i think i am seeing it but if they can pull it off it is better, that said those people are going to live to like 120 so the rate of divorce will go back up. or open marriages |
Anonymous
| ^better bc having kids at 23 seems better if all else is equal |