Goodbye, Young Man

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  • 68% of men between the ages of 18-29 are single and have never been married.
  • 140 females graduate college for every 100 males.
  • Median annual wage for millenials with only a high school diploma is $28,000
  • 7/10 of all suicides are white males. It is the second highest cause of death for white men between the ages of 15-34, with ~19% of all deaths in this age group being suicide.
  • 12% of males 12 and older abuse drugs. Compared to 7.3% for females.
  • ~26% of young adults report binge drinking multiple times per month. Men are twice as likely to engage in binge drinking as women.
  • Men die from drunk driving at twice the rate of women.
  • Men are 1.4 times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia. 2.3 times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with Autism. 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with some form of anti-social personality disorder. 1 in 7 American boys will be diagnosed with ADHD at some point in their school years.
  • Men compose ~80% of the homeless population. Men compose 93.2% of the prison population.
  • Young male unemployment/non-employment rate is ~15%
Last and perhaps most disturbingly:
  • Men compose just over 1/3 of the typical US congregation. Over 70% of young men will leave their church in their teens and twenties.
I think we need to have a talk about your sons, America.
 
These numbers are sure to increase. The biggest contributor to this is the lack of a strong Father figure in their lives. The Breakdown of the Family is the work of Satan!
 
And perhaps the increasingly single status of American men is related to the record low fertility rate of American women. Paul Ryan recently commented that the U.S. needs more children to be economically viable. He has been largely ridiculed for that in the media. But America will never be great again if marriage, families, and children do not make a comeback. It is not looking good. Young men staying single; lack of interest in marriage, a precipitously declining fertility rate. It’s the indication and precursor to a nation in decline.
 
Just a question…Are you saying my inability to bear children is why I am not married?
Please bear in mind: There are those of us who cannot have children. And there are children who need adoption.
 
Even in countries with greater incentives for families like cheap health care, the birth rates are declining. The problem, at the end of the day, is that the wealthier a group of people become overall, the less children they tend to have. This has been observed in demographic data as early as the Early Modern Period in England, where the first glimmerings of a middle class showed that these people tended to have less children than their poorer neighbors.

When you take away the economic incentive of large families, people just tend to have less children. In the pre-Pill era they used other means to reduce conception rates (and, of course, high infant mortality rates played there part as well), but since the introduction of modern contraceptives, well, that has only deepened a very long trend. The wealthier you are, the more secure you feel financially, the less children you tend to have.

So unless you’re going to start outright paying families to have more kids, in other words, commodify children, it isn’t going to do you much good. I’m not even sure paying people to have children, unless it was some absurdly high amount of money, would make that much of a difference.
 
Not at all, the low fertility rate to which I referred is simply a statistical average giving the average number of children born in a given population. Replacement level is 2.1. Many nations are below replacement level. Paul Ryan commented that “we have something like a 90 percent increase in the retirement population of America but only a 19 percent increase in the working population in America. So what do we have to do? Be smarter, more efficient, more technology . . . still going to need more people.”
 
niceatheist said:
I’m not even sure paying people to have children, unless it was some absurdly high amount of money, would make that much of a difference.
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Maybe so, maybe not. My children are all grown, but if I was starting out right now, my biggest worry would be paying for their educations, the costs have increased so much since then. You might be right, but I’m wondering whether a more target approach might help.

Back when I was college age, tuition in what is now Missouri State was zero. Now I think it’s about $7,000/year. Not terribly high, but when you add room and board, books, etc, it gets up there.
 
JimG said:
Young men staying single; lack of interest in marriage,
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If you encountered some of the millennial brats I have, then you’d understand why I’m single. Finding a Holy spouse is difficult and not something to be rushed.
 
As a fellow millennial I understand what you mean. It is definately difficult. And Holy Matrimony is not to be hurried into.
 
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TheLittleLady said:
Source? 16 chars blah blah
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Go to Google, copy and past the words I wrote, voila, you’ll have a source. I’m not writing an academic paper here. If you have reason to doubt one of those numbers, specify the number and I’ll do my best to find a source.
JimG said:
It’s the indication and precursor to a nation in decline.
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Here’s what I see for our future. I see 5-10 million men who hit their 40s and 50s unmarried, with no real retirement savings and making a barely livable income, no way to improve their situation, and no church support system. I think suicide will become the number one killer of men in my age group. Either through the gun, the booze, the pill, the needle, or their sedentary, fast-food lifestyles. I think you’ll see women, realizing their own economic and marriage-related problems (not as severe as men, but existent) using thier voting power to legalize polygamy, so six or seven ‘normal’ women can all marry one elite male. This will further exacerbate the problem of the general unavailability of marriage and family for lower-income and lower-value men. At that point it will either be the creation of an actual slave class, or a massive and extremely bloody revolution.
Nelka said:
What percentage are Catholic?
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Unfortunately this is irrelevant. I’m not trying to discuss the superiority of Catholocism. I agree 100% that God is the ONLY way out of this. My point is that these men are largely not even religious. They have nothing that truly satisfies or inspires them to be better or to fix their problem. Barring miraculous intervention, they are doomed.
 
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Kathleen18 said:
As a fellow millennial I understand what you mean. It is definately difficult. And Holy Matrimony is not to be hurried into.
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I guess I’m retrograde here, but how many young women today accept the idea of abortion? Likely it’s the majority. I’m glad I married long ago when almost no young Catholic women did. But if I was a young man I would sure want to know whether some potential future spouse was okay with killing my children. And if she believes in “choice”, I would never, ever marry her. I would spend my life as a bachelor first.

So, does that knock out 50% or so of Catholic women? More? Fewer? Whatever it is, it narrows the “eligible pool” considerably.
 
What if the problem with finding a spouse starts with looking in the mirror?
 
I don’t know. In my opinion the situation is already terminal. But then again, I fit in with many of these stats myself, so part of me expects the elites and haves could figure out a solution if they wanted. Probably wishful thinking and entitlement complex though.
 
We have several problems at once.

Recreational sex means fewer marriages.
We’ve known for a long time about the dumbing down of education.
Increased substance abuse problems.

But the real scary one is the increasing mental health issues, which are happening to girls, too.
More and more socially incompetent kids, scared to talk to people, anxiety and depression, record number of kids on psyche meds…
 
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What are we supposed to say to them?
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I don’t know about anybody else’s son, but for one’s own son the best thing a father can do is be a good father; one who clearly values children more than his own finances or entertainment, and treats his wife with absolute respect. And taking the whole family to church isn’t a bad way either, including on Sundays, holy days, various “traditional” devotions. And praying as a family is a good thing. If you don’t, then how do you expect the children to be religious?
 
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