New: Number of unmarried young men surging in🇺🇸. Unmarried young men (20-39) now outnumber married men by nearly 2 to 1. Since 2000:
✔️Unmarried up 47% : 20.7M (2000) → 30.4M (2025)
✔️Married down 15%: 18.1M (2000) → 15.4M (2025)
One of the most confusing parts about marriage discourse is the (recent) insistence that you need a house to get married
It comes from our "capstone marriage" culture, the idea that marriage must come after every other achievement
A growing part of the right says young people are delaying marriage because they can’t afford to buy a house and establish financial security first.
Yes, housing really is too expensive. But history tells a different story.
Most young Boomer newlyweds were renters. Today's newlyweds are more likely to own at the same point.
Yet far fewer young people marry by the same age.
For generations, marriage was part of how ordinary people built a life. Now we increasingly treat marriage as proof you've already built one.
Data/analysis: @swinshi
@lisavsworld I'm also worried for the guys who are late 20s/early 30s, though, that date and it's not like they're sleeping with women, but are really bad at dating. They don't know how to talk to or pursue a woman. There's no one helping them.
Meanwhile, the local CHRISTIAN radio station has an ad about donating your car where at the end, the wife says, "Do they take husbands, too?" 😩 @familyliferadio
Many guys aren't going to like me to say this, but forced obedience among women - to the extent it was ever desirable - is an impossible thing to maintain in the west today, and comes across extremely weak when you say it
A woman follows your lead because she chooses to, and she will only choose to over time because following you makes her life better
You cannot outsource authority to a role that has no institutional power behind it, so saying "I'm your husband, you must obey" has no teeth and subcommunicates a lack of individual frame and power
Like saying "this is against the law" to someone robbing you when you live in a place with no police