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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think another factor is the number of “failure to launch” men who are not really marriage material. I have a number of friends and a SIL (all mid 40s+ now) who wanted to marry and have kids but it just never happened. Not enough good guys to go around. All of them possibly could have “settled” or become single moms but didn’t feel strongly enough to go to such lengths. All are happy with their lives - lots of friends, career, hobbies etc. and don’t seem to have any real regrets.

I think in times past, they would’ve felt more pressure to settle and marry. Many did, I think. I don’t remember knowing many “single never married” middle aged+ women when I was a kid. None in our extended families or our social circle/neighborhood that I recall offhand.  Now I know many! [/quote]

I knew a number of older single women at church in the 1970s. Had a couple of "maiden" great aunts who never married. These were all middle.class or lower middle class white women who are all deceased now.

Pre Roe v Wade and pre accessible birth control, women who wanted to have a career or a job, or who didn't have great marriage prospects, tended to stay single.

My great aunts had marriage proposals, but they knew what living and having children with a man who might beat them or be an alcoholic looked like and opted to stay single.

When women had fewer choices, sometimes it made more sense to stay single than to get married and have kids. [/quote]

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