That Dr. Helen has managed to generate at least 109 comments on PJMedia in a few hours with her article is telling. This obviously is a topic which needs more exploration.
From my own life experience I surmise that the reasons for the male to not get married are varied, and sometimes intertwined and perhaps impossible to de-correlate. That Ms. Hymowitz believes she can attribute the reason for non-marriage to perpetual adolescence is too simple.
Also, it is sort of assumed by many people that non-marriage is somehow a bad thing for society. However, given modern civilization’s inventions and use of energy (freeing us from human physical labor), and the rise of nations built upon law (and not the rule of the jungle), is marriage necessary anymore (in the sense that evolutionary psychology sometimes speak?) Perhaps Dr. Helen could address this too.
