What is it about todays "young single males"?

I think it's definitely a difference in generation, I'm 16, and really..don't plan on getting married within the next ten years. My grandparents, want me to get married young and have kids asap, but I don't feel that way...because I want to have my own experiences first. I guess, it's just that "kids" are realizing that they have time for marriage and kids and jobs, later and really don't want to grow up yet. And because you allow them to live at home, they do. If you push them out of the nest you may see that they do a lot more then you think. I have a plan, but I know that I don't want to live at home after I graduate from college. My parents are supportive, but also push the fact that I should be married before I'm 25..and think it's weird that I don't want to get married really young.

We don't see life in the same way, I guess. I mean, sure, we want someday to have those experiences, but we don't see a reason to rush into them. We want to learn about ourselves..plus, our parents allow us to move back home and sit around on our butts..kick them out..and wake them up..it's the only way they'll get their acts together.

Well, I can honestly tell you that I really know what you mean. Although I am a female, I have a fiancee for over 8 years. I honestly don't have "Marriage in me any longer for he took too long to arrange it." Is fine with me. I bring this up because when I was 13 ys old I already wanted to leave the house. My parents didn't get along so I had to grow fast and i started working and paying my own bills at the age of 12. $80 a month and $50 would go to my mom to help her pay the bills. On the weekends I had to sell fruits and vegetables to go out with my friends in order to have enough money to go out. I know this maybe irrelevant but is not. By the age of 17 I wanted to meet my Prince Charming and I thought I did. Now I am 34 yrs old and my "living husband" sits in front of the computer all day and never pays a bill. I pay everything. He gets mad when I tell him that at times is the parents fault for not teachiing their children their priorities before htey go out trying to make a family. I know you must be dying for your kids to leave but what would you rather a son that can make a merriage last or one that will get divorced every year? This is what you have to think. Talk to you children and let them know this priorities and if this don't work, throw them out. They will change when they miss the good life you give them. Sometime parents spoil their kids and don't even realize it. Sometimes we need to learn to let go.

My son and daughter couldn't wait to finish college, get a job and rent their own apartments. This generation is truly different.

My daughter has dated several young men in their early to mid 30s. She ends up breaking up with them because they are terrified of making a commitment. A couple of them were never happy with their jobs (they were college educated) and kept changing from one place to another.

I don't know the answer. I do know that my son is very selfish. I raised him to have self-confidence and perhaps I overdid it!!

Power-feminists, career women and "child free" metro-sexual lifestyles, all these have been PUSHED like an illegal-drug in medias. The unspoken message is "marriage is slavery" and "the way males are raised " is "the problem" in the world. Having children is not convenient as a career move is an unspoken message. Male TV and film characters are depicted as bumbling fools and wrong-headed in every respect. A prime example being high-handed actress and power-feminist , Meridith Vierra , on her TV show MILLIONAIRE with her prejudicial treatment aimed at male contestants. The TV show SCRUBS is another example.

Now, the power-feminist elites have declared a post-feminist era. One trial balloon has been the "where have all the real men gone" slogan. These "opinion-makers" seem to have "thrown the baby out with the bathwater."

All of this media content is taught as gospel in state-government universities through the "Liberal Arts and Humanities" areas . Please notice many of the Western Civilization classes have been eliminated. These are self-sabotage efforts of the leftist oriented educational establishment. John MacArthur, the publisher of the Atlantic Monthly, recently declared on Canadian radio, that "any identity is racist". He clearly meant that for example all "proud to be Irish", all pride in your heritage as Frenchmen, or all pride in Swedish heritage etc, MacAurthur dictates that all this is racist (and according to his generation of elite-vanguard in the mighty media).

To briefly conclude:

The media comprised of a majority leftist-liberals appear to HATE happily married traditional couples and refuse to highlight this traditional marriage institution in the entertainment venues. This new social menu bucks reliable surveys showing children born in two parent homes are better adjusted/balanced adults. I hope your sons have not been entranced by all the media messages aimed at them through their formative years.

Good Luck in your sons

ambitions and in their making solid plans for their futures,

TO