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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I only worry about the males in my own household and they are crushing it.  Always had straight As w/out helicopter parents. Always did their work w.out being reminded, great at scheduling.  High rigor courses with a busy sports schedule, a club and lots of community service. Part-time summer jobs, etc.  Oldest made it to an Ivy unhooked and top in his courses (w/out stress or feeling pressured--plenty of time for other things)--even won a departmental award Freshmen year.  Very pro-active, lots of relationships w/ professors, etc.  Solves his own problems, etc.  Sophomore study abroad at prestigious university--lots of independence.  Fantastic intership.

I attribute a lot to letting them fail. Letting them deal with the politics of travel sports and not stepping in.  They figured out. They dug in, found other teams, trained harder and harder--felt the harshness after putting themselves out there. And, then seeing failure turn into opportunity and new directions.

We always had the mantra 'when one door closes or you are rejected, there is opportunity for better with a different door'.  I always told them it wasn't meant to be and they are better off---and that has always been the case. What they thought they wanted--they see they were lucky not to get it. An a-hole coach and disappointed players, etc.--while being someone better with a great coach--apply this to everything else.

I get tired of the 'girl moms/dads' on this board.  Blah, blah, blah...hopefully, they can find a good partner to date/marry being so superior to everyone else.[/quote]

Congrats?? You realize this little anecdote means absolutely nothing on a macro level, right? Your kids are not the norm. These are well documented statistics. Girls ARE outperforming boys. It IS an issue with regards to dating and marriage. It even had an impact on the moron who is president right now. Boys are less educated and more conservative. Why would an educated ambitious woman want to be with an uneducated MAGA guy?[/quote]

I just read an article about this actually. Educated women are marrying less educated men because that's who is available. [/quote]

WSJ just ran a big article…actually said they aren’t marrying at all and becoming single parents by choice.

In fact, the article said working class women with jobs are marrying less than educated women.[/quote]

From WSJ:

American women have never been this resigned to staying single. They are responding to major demographic shifts, including huge and growing gender gaps in economic and educational attainment, political affiliation and beliefs about what a family should look like.

“The numbers aren’t netting out,” said Daniel Cox, director of the survey center at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank. He ticked off the data points: More women than men are attending college, buying houses and focusing on their friendships and careers over dating and marriage.

The share of women ages 18 to 40 who are single—that is, neither married nor cohabitating with a partner—was 51.4% in 2023, according to an analysis of census data by the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, up from 41.8% in 2000.

These numbers don’t specify whether women are looking for love or swearing it off, but more-nuanced surveys show that single women appear less interested in getting married now than they used to be. They also seem less keen on getting hitched than their male peers.

The challenges of finding a romantic partner have been made more complicated by a growing divide in education and career prospects between men and women. In 2024 47% of American women ages 25-34 had a bachelor’s degree, according to Pew, compared with 37% of men. A bachelor’s degree increases net lifetime earnings by an estimated $1 million, according to a 2024 report from Georgetown University.

Men’s economic struggles seem to be having the biggest effect on women without a college degree, whose marriage rates by age 45 have plummeted from 79% to 52% for those born between 1930 and 1980, according to research by Cornell University economist Benjamin Goldman. “Young men without a degree are struggling so much as a group that there simply aren’t enough with steady jobs and earnings for non-college women to date,” said Goldman.

For Christina Ralstin, a 31-year-old wildland firefighter in rural Republic, Wash., who didn’t go to college, buying a house was confirmation she didn’t need a partner to be content. She paid $90,000 for a two-bedroom on half an acre of land in 2022. [/quote]
If women are fine being single, why does the article make it seem like women are the real victims of men's poverty?[/quote]

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