Another thing I think may be contributing to this is the chaos many of these singles experinced as children. Now I know people have always had bad childhoods, however since divorce has dramatically increased since the 1970s, I believe it’s gotten worse. The reasons are the breakdown of the nuclear family.
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This is higher than Gen Xers (68%), Boomers (63%) or Silents (52%) when they were the age Millennials are now. Some 16% of Millennials with a bachelor’s degree married someone with some college education, 9% are married to a high school graduate, and 1% of Millennials with a college degree married someone with less than a high school education. We can’t blame people for questioning true love; half of all marriages are ending in divorce, and don’t even get us started on dating apps. Sometimes it feels like a jungle out there whether you are a millennial or not. Hypergamy may benefit individual Cinderellas who find a prince charming, but it hurts women overall because women such as yourself get stuck with the men Cinderella should have gone with.
Why there is something rather than nothing is the ultimate question. That the something happens to be so disproportionately awful is the ultimate tragedy. The real problem, which your otherwise excellent post didn’t emphasize enough, is the role that media of all kinds have played in dramatically raising women’s expectations as to the kind of man they might be able to get.
“Back in my day it was easier to buy a home”
It would help if older men could help younger ones make more money and better attract women. It is a big responsibility to direct the life of a young man. One has the power to either make him part of the race’s story or not, and decent pay — as shallow as it seems — is a crucial step. The least equality of all nations in the world, but it doesn’t have a singles epidemic because 90% of their marriages are arranged, and people marry only within their caste. There is less inequality within castes than across the whole society, so it helps to prevent income-based hypergamy.
Genetic mutations make people stand out, but good mutations make people stand out for a good reason. 20 times more, so even the top 20% of men receive a fifth as many matches as 80% of women. Clearly, the female sex drive cannot handle online dating. Dating apps eliminate natural peer groups and unleash the full effects of women’s choosiness. In any case, online dating makes it obvious that women are far less willing to end the singles epidemic than men.
Millennials were not hit hard by wealth destruction, as they had little wealth to lose. Young women today are much more likely to be working, compared with Silent Generation women during their young adult years. In 1965, when Silent women were young, a majority (58%) were not participating in the labor force and 40% were employed. Today, 71% of young Millennial women are employed, while 26% are not in the labor force. This shift to more women in the workplace occurred as early as 1985, when Boomers were young. Then, nearly seven-in-ten young Boomer women (66%) were employed and 29% were not in the labor force.
Our situation is an appalling one, that we have come to exist in a universe which does not acknowledge, validate or reciprocate us in any way. Our most heartfelt questions and pleas are directed in vain to the entropic churn of a vast abyss. We are all locked inside the confines of a mind Bumble and body we did not choose, had no say in, and which will inevitably fail us, sometimes in the most horrific ways imaginable. Why are you still speaking of “hypergamy” as if it is a real thing? The term is like “racism.” It is intended, and does, pathologize women and only women.
Writing about this subject feels like staring into the abyss into which half of whites and Western civilization are falling. It is liberating to confront it, though, because the only way to solve such a problem is to confront it. I vote yes on the people who are losing out in the singles epidemic — especially those who care about their race.
What hasn’t changed is women’s biological clocks. Most women still experience a precipitous fall in fertility starting at age 35. Pushing things two years deeper toward this fall off will result in many fewer white children being born. I suppose if a person comes into a marriage with substantial assets, but no children, a prenup may be justified on the grounds that these assets were accumulated before the beginning of the partnership, but this should be rare.
While all Millennials were born around the turn of the century, some of them are still in early adulthood, wrestling with new careers and settling down, while the older Millennials have a home and are building a family. You can imagine how having a child might change your interests and priorities, so for marketing purposes, it’s useful to split this generation into Gen Y.1 and Gen Y.2. Median personal weekly income of people working full-time in 1991, 2006 and 2021, by sex and agePersons aged years1991 ($)2006 ($)2021 ($)Male ,583Female ,451Total years ,527Total 15 years and over ,537 a. Worked 35 hours and over in all jobs during the week prior to Census Night. The median incomes of females were lower than males for all three generations when aged years.