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See were not in the 12th century. Let them take care of you buy you things take you places but you let them know your the boss. Pretty soon you have everything you want and you wont have to lift a finger.
Seriously!......something is wrong with this person......
It's not so much about the vast majority of parents here or there, but the classes of parents. For example, educated women and professional women tend to raise daughters to become educated and career-oriented as well (it's the strongest predictor for education and career at this point). Women who are not educated, who hail from lower SES backgrounds raise their daughters to follow suit. I think religion probably plays a role as well as culture. Much of this information is census based. I will find some links when I get home if you're interested.
It's not so much about the vast majority of parents here or there, but the classes of parents. For example, educated women and professional women tend to raise daughters to become educated and career-oriented as well (it's the strongest predictor for education and career at this point). Women who are not educated, who hail from lower SES backgrounds raise their daughters to follow suit. I think religion probably plays a role as well as culture.
True. I know things have changed in recent years, but quite a few women around me seem to always need a boyfriend (wanting/needing are two different things). Of course just as many guys appear to be the same way.
My sources All Men Are Jerks Until Proven Otherwise, a book, talks about how men and women are raised differently and that this leads to their problems with communication and expectations of relationships. Another book, Singled Out; How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized and Ignored and Still Live Happily Ever After, debunks myths about single people, and also goes into how single men and women are viewed differently.
I know some parents are trying to raise their kids different than they were raised and that's great. But society is still out there, and what society expects of men and women can still be quite different.
Women want a man locked in while they are relatively young and beautiful. It gets really difficult for a woman to get a man by her early 30s unless she's exceptionally pretty. Regular looking girls don't have much of a chance since older men so often date younger women. As for wanting kids, its because women AND men are illogical morons.Having a kid makes it more likely that you'll end up unhappy and divorced.
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I think this whole "women want marriage and family more than men" is a myth. I'd venture out and say it's the opposite.
I wouldn't say it's the opposite. I agree not all women want that, and some men want that, but I think in general this is one stereotype that while it doesn't apply to all applies to most. Most women I speak to say they want to have kids one day - they're at least thinking about it. Many guys are indifferent about it, but then they've got longer to wait. I think many men deep down have the instinct more to pass on their genes than actually raise children...the paternal instinct probably isn't as strong as the maternal instinct in human beings.
Women want a man locked in while they are relatively young and beautiful. It gets really difficult for a woman to get a man by her early 30s unless she's exceptionally pretty. Regular looking girls don't have much of a chance since older men so often date younger women. As for wanting kids, its because women AND men are illogical morons.Having a kid makes it more likely that you'll end up unhappy and divorced.
BS. I got plenty offers in my 30's. Even accepted one.
Even in my late 40's I've had 3 marriage proposals, well those three were from the same guy.
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Women want a man locked in while they are relatively young and beautiful. It gets really difficult for a woman to get a man by her early 30s unless she's exceptionally pretty. Regular looking girls don't have much of a chance since older men so often date younger women. As for wanting kids, its because women AND men are illogical morons.Having a kid makes it more likely that you'll end up unhappy and divorced.
That's changing...women are looking and acting younger than in the past, and there seem to be more men open to dating older women. Most women can have children until their late 40s, and late pregnancies are on the rise.
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