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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The basic problem is that a lot of women maybe most nowadays seem to think they should magically have access to their choice of what they feel is a desirable man.  But there aren't enough to go around.  It's supply and demand.  If you're not getting the kind of man you want, maybe you yourself don't bring enough to the relationship table.  After all, everyone complaining here CANT be all that.  It's just statistics.[/quote]

The thing is a lot of women are perfectly fine with the idea that they either get the type of man that they want or none at all. [/quote]

+1 and it seems a lot of men would like to return to a time when “none at all” wasn’t (economically) an option.[/quote]

It still kind of isn’t an option for most women who want kids. On one hand women have more economic freedom, but this has been negated by insane cost of living. You need to earn a top 2-3% income to comfortably have a kid on your own, and how many women of actual child bearing age are earning 250k+ outside of anecdotal stories of high earning girl bosses on these forums?

The average single woman under 35 can barely afford to sustain herself in a 1BR apartment. Raising kids and paying for child care is out of the question. [/quote]

Which is why the birth rate is falling. If women can't find men they want to have kids with, and can't afford to have them on their own, many will just choose not to have kids.

I'm married and have a kid, but [b]stopped at one for several reasons including discovering how unequal my marriage felt after having kids[/b] and not wanting to increase that inequity with more children.[/quote]

Amen, good call and good luck. [/quote]

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