Unfortunately, but its a bit deeper than that basic characterization allows. There are a lot of confounding factors, from the lack of actual role models, subve

Unfortunately, but its a bit deeper than that basic characterization allows. There are a lot of confounding factors, from the lack of actual role models, subversive propaganda, poor parenting, and the effects of education, to the debt saddled on you at a time in your life where you are especially vulnerable as you become independent. There was an interesting set of statistics out of Scandinavia, I think it was, that seemed to suggest that women with high levels of education rarely selected mates who were not at least as educated as they were. Women generally as a cohort don't date down. Some common things that often get ignored are: If women don't have babies by 35, risk of complications and death go up drastically. If men or women aren't debt free with a down payment for a house by 30, they often won't get married (because of the debt), or if they do, they won't have children. The issue is a societal one where commonplace norms weren't propagated for the most part by the boomer generation and the survivors who have been tied down in red tape unable to move are the people left to pick up the pieces. That of course assumes someone at the top chooses not to end everything in a glorious final confrontation by escalating existential threats. Not good times.