[earlINmeyerkeg]

That is probably the one part of the article they really should've made more prominent. Yet they didn't. They hammered it home that videogames and young men not getting married and having 12 kids is the problem.

Maybe culturally getting married is incredibly more time consuming and difficult than it used to be? I mean I'm reading George Orwell's Burmese days and the main character was trying to propose (and the girl wanted him to) within 2 weeks of knowing eachother! Granted it's a book, but that doesn't sound outside the realms of normalcy, especially in Burma during the 1920's where there were like 1/1000 ratio of white person to native.

[watwut]

It did used to be normal to marry after extremely short time from our point of view. And divorce was harder.

There were consequences for that through - partner who hate each other, violence, abuse (verbal, emotional, physical). Alcoholism.

[magduf]

>There were consequences for that through - partner who hate each other, violence, abuse (verbal, emotional, physical). Alcoholism.

Yeah, the people who pine for the "good old days" when people married for life always leave this part out.

[earlINmeyerkeg]

Abusive MEN in particular. Especially radical christians where divorce is stigmatized. It's like they take it as a free pass to just be hateful person. Honestly my dad more than anything made marriage seem worse than it could be that I figured if that's the worst case scenario, hoping for the best isn't even worth the gamble.

[mywittyname]

Yet, they always seem to remember what milkmen and secretaries were for.

[earlINmeyerkeg]

I totally agree and don't think I'm idolizing the past. It's just a different world today and the culture has not caught up with reality.