Discussion of unmarried age of women in 1980 vs 2015 in r/dataisbeautiful quickly breaks down into "I should do whatever makes me happy". Wonder how many are women and how many of them are motivated by the Sex in the City/radfem 'do whatever makes you happy and sod your family' type message.

KingRobotPrince · 2017-11-06T09:41:52+00:00

I thought this comment was particularly relevant. The user is explaining why people splitting up is bad for kids, not why marriage is bad:

Yep, I'm a guy that married a woman that made more than me and has a degree. After losing my job back in the recession, much of our marital breakdown came from my unemployment. I now live on the other side of the planet, divorced, she's gone working mom of course back in the states because she qualifies for a nice fat job. Now my daughter has no father and she has little time for life balance. My daughter is showing loads of bad behaviors now, at the age of six, the solution? Medication. Just turn the dysfunctional bastards into medicated zombies- SOCIETY FIXED! But at least the average woman now has more opportunities than the average man...

A lot of the comments seemed to care little that marriage means you are less likely to separate, or that separation is bad for kids. Their happiness seemed to be the main priority.

iainmf · 2017-11-06T10:33:35+00:00

"I should do what makes me happy"

People don't know what makes them happy. If they did there would be a lot more happy people.

_Thurston_Howell_ · 2017-11-06T18:41:07+00:00

Generally, women care about work/life balance and only want to be happy, and will break up a family in order to serve themselves and their wants and desires.

Generally, men care about their families and do what needs to be done to preserve the family, for whats best for their family, most times sacrificing wants and desires for the needs of their family, hoping that once in a while they can do what they want to do.

kartu3 · 2017-11-06T10:13:57+00:00

I doubt movies have any serious impact over our basic instincts.

kek_mit_uns · 2017-11-06T21:38:11+00:00

I saw this thread, skimmed the top comments...

And I just couldn't believe how everyone was focusing on the shift in age that women were tending to get married, not that the rate was going down so dramatically as a whole.

This is the decline of Western Civilization in a nutshell, right there.

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Generally, women care about work/life balance and only want to be happy, and will break up a family in order to serve themselves and their wants and desires.

Generally, men care about their families and do what needs to be done to preserve the family, for whats best for their family, most times sacrificing wants and desires for the needs of their family, hoping that once in a while they can do what they want to do.