America needs to revive the stigma against being single

 As a single person myself, my first reaction was indignation. Then, after a few moments, another thought occurred to me: Maybe that’s not a terrible idea.

Americans aren’t getting married as much as they used to.

Why more people are unpartnered  

One popular theory is that men have just become less compelling to women. The sexual revolution and the shift to a more service-oriented economy resulted in a rise in stature for women: 

They have more education and more well-paid jobs, while many men are struggling in the new economy. Women find these guys unappealing, the theory goes, and see singlehood as a better alternative.

For most of human history, marriage was a necessary economic and social agreement, especially for women.

Consider France between the world wars. It lost about a fifth of its young male population in World War I, which meant there were fewer men to marry. 

And yet marriage rates spiked after the war and stayed high for the next decade. 

Research shows that French women ended up marrying men they might have not otherwise considered

Those “compensating marriages” of interwar France did not result in more divorces. 

Then again, what choice did they have?

Allison Schrager Bloomberg 12 februari 2025  

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-12/is-being-single-bad-for-the-economy 

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