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I don't care who gets married or not as long as they don't have children that we support or who are tossed from "daddy" to "daddy" with no one ever really thinking about the children. This is what I see most often too. Adults can do as they please, but at the point they drag children into the mix and make a mess of it, that spells PROBLEM.
think need to address the fellas to keep it zipped
The days of getting your high-school diploma, getting hired down at the mill for six-and-fourpence a week and staying there for 25 years, married to your high school sweetheart who'll stay in the house with the white picket fence raising the kids are gone, and they'll never come back. Historians will scratch their heads as to why conservatives claimed them to be the natural norm for so long.
The millennials I encounter (and I do in fact encounter a lot) are lining up education and careers and experiences as priorities over getting a cubicle in the spreadsheet factory and settling down. Good on them. They work hard, they're smart, and they're completely aware that they're looking at an employment and housing market that's aligned against them.
Regarding the legal market , I had read that there is one 1 job opening for every 2 graduates of law school.
Many of these firms only seem to hire those at the top of their class from the top schools .
One can open their own practice but then that's more running a business .
Working 60- 80 hours a week , pretty nuts .
This is definitely an issue in high cost places . So many of the hours worked just go to putting a roof over your head .
Running a small business is always going to be a ton of work. My boyfriend set up his business in part to help fund his parents' retirement - his mom was approaching 60 in an office job that only paid $15 an hour and was cutting benefits and talks of looming layoffs, and his parents announced they had raided their retirement fund for one of their own business ideas that didn't pan out and had nothing. The business is successful, but until the business is able to scale he does everything from accounting to bookkeeping to dealing with both vendors he works with and vendors who sell his products. I do marketing and web design for his business as a consultant, and my day job involves a lot of unpaid overtime (salaried).
The law market seems to be doing much better now but if you graduated in 2008-2012ish and didn't get a law job straight out of school, you're SOL trying to get back in. I'm thankful that for all the absolute fits my parents threw about me abandoning my law school ambitions in 2010, I stuck it out and am the better for it. Unfortunately, like college, many were told law school was a sure shot to great employment and instead are saddled with tons of debt. I had friends with Ivy league undergrad degrees and decent, but not T14 law degrees who were top tier students (law review, etc) who spent years teaching LSAT classes and putting up traffic court ads on Craigslist trying to land work in that period. It's depressing.
The millennials have been handed a colossal mess from the baby boomers. 20 Trillion dollars in debt. A consumer-based, healthcare economy.
The future looks bleak for much more reasons than simply a break down of the family unit. Remember Hillary Clinton, who is a baby boomer was advocate for same sex marriage, feminist rights, etc..
This is not due to the millennials, who many are struggling living with their parents because they have no other choice in this economy that wants to pay $12 for skilled workers.
Hardly enough to support a family on.
That never stopped people before, though marriage rates did go down in the Depression, I believe. Not going to look it up right now. As the parent of two millennials, I know a lot of them. Most in their late 20s and older are married, many have kids.
When the MTV is normalizing single mothers and a good majority of women in real life or online are 26-32 having 2-3 kids.... to hell with you and your globalist agenda
Sorry but the majority of women 26-32 do not have two to three kids.
To op and the poster who posted, "Without new immigrants it just means a declining birthrate. Just like your country experienced."
Please keep it simple. People live longer compare to their grandparents generation; women are making money and being more independent.
To a lot of people, a cornerstone (only one of many options) is a loving, healthy, committed relationship, in which you build a life with another person. Many people including the younger people (25-34) have that, believe it or not.
Having a party and a ring and a certificate to say we're committed to each other would be fun, but isn't necessary. It's icing, not the cake. Or as many say, a capstone.
So I would say if you think marriage is a cornerstone, great!
I just turned 30 not long ago, and I will get married when I feel comfortable. I have a great relationship with a man I love. Right now, we are building our career and we both want to retire before the age of 40 or 45, so that is our priority.
We are not spoiled brat; instead, we are taking care of business and building our future. Majority of my friends are doing exactly the same thing.
Please do not call people spoiled brat simply because “We all learn in a different way, at a different pace".
Maybe learning is being mature and responsible, just a thought.
Getting married isn't expensive but weddings are expensive . Some are very expensive .
Earlier this year I went to a wedding in Las Vegas at a nice hotel on the Strip and the bride mentioned it cost over $100k both have family money so I guess not a big deal for them .
But even a more modest wedding can be unaffordable for most young people .
Good luck on the goal of retiring early . Many people seem to have it in their mind that they have to work until their 60s at least because "that's when people retire " .
it's a non story. Most marriages end in divorce, so maybe it is better people are waiting longer or not doing it at all.
I would add, we just came through the Republican created great recession. Recession on the scale that the GOP created, delays marriages, lowers divorce rates and such like.
Now that we have seen Obama's policy of reflation save the nation and get us back on track (at great cost) we will start to see things normalize. But it may take many more years for some social groups ( i know these are real people) to fully recover.
But lets thank Obama for refusing to follow the GOP austerity plan. We saw the EU follow that plan and it was a disaster, that they had to abandon and instead copy the Obama's reinflation plan that saved us from implosion caused by reckless GOP governance.
Marriage will recover better we when get leadership willing to provide more employment security and healthcare security which makes people much more likely to invest in marriage and children long term.
Well hell, no wonder you're so jaded when it comes to women. Seems to be a very common theme among Alt-Right people almost exclusively
Jaded. Nah... High standards. Yeah. Don't go to bars looking for a wife, I just love the food, music, rum runners, and socialising.
Tell me why I should consider settling for less... so I can get divorced and quote Trump
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This may be the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals. Maybe ever.
I know my worth and what I bring to the table. Pretty face, dime a dozen. Morals, standards, self esteem not so much...
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to hell with you and your globalist agenda
People live longer compare to their grandparents generation; women are making money and being more independent. 