Fewer men attending college is leading toward "mating crisis", says NYC professor

[Ashley Banks]

True. But I believe the overarching point is to live out your twilight years financially comfortable; surrounded by a stable, developed family unit. You can't tell me that's not preferable to spending years 50-85 solo dolo, or as a single mom burdening your kids financially with your existence. Because statistically, the kids raised by that single mom won't be well off themselves. So there's a domino effect that takes place impacting future generations.

I never said otherwise. Just pointing out the flaw in that. Why not list the positive things? People make this kind of stuff so negative “you better do this or you’ll die alone” like you can do everything right and still end up single for life.

There’s no need for all the hostility because nothing is promised. A lot of men don’t even want to get married or be with one woman anyways so even if you do everything exactly how you guys say you could end up with one of those men. Idk why people make marriage/dating talk such a negative thing.

 

[ogc163]

He's talking about assortative mating, and as long as class and networks matter it's not going anywhere.

Slightly different dynamics in the Black community since based on the best evidence available most college educated Black women who get married marry Black men who don't have degrees.

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

Yeah he talking about cac incels

Whole article is referring to cacs. Black men don't have these problems.

 

[ogc163]

Cats are ignoring the statistics and that’s disturbing. All metrics from the BLS and NACE prove what you are saying is true

I'll keep hammering the point home that STAT 101 should be taught in high school, this thread embodies the problem with people ignoring or not understanding averages, base rates, and outliers.

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[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

None of this is by accident. It is all planned.

The overall effort is being guided by how black manhood/fatherhood/husbandry was destroyed beginning in the 1960s.

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[ogc163]

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Whole article is referring to cacs. Black men don't have these problems.

The "women outperforming men/girls outperforming boys" stats are FAR worse in our communities, and have been so for decades.

 

[NinoBrown]

Also...most of these female degree holders aren't even in money-making fields and have high-debt loads. "Educated" yes but it isn't even in a real field like STEM but BS like Gender Studies, Art, Psych, Sociology, Social Work.....

Who cares if they have beyond a HS degree if they carry 80k in loans?

 

[ogc163]

Rich Like Me: How Assortative Mating Is Driving Income Inequality

• There is a further link between, on the one hand, assortative mating, and, on the other hand, increasing returns to investment in children, which only more educated couples are able to provide. They can, for example, expose their children to a learning-conducive atmosphere at home and introduce them to cultural experiences that less-educated parents may have little interest in (concerts, libraries, ballet), as well as to elite sports. The importance of linking these seemingly unrelated developments—women’s education, greater work participation by women, assortative marriage patterns, and the increasing importance of early childhood learning—is that it illuminates one of the key mechanisms of within-generation creation of inequality and its intergenerational transmission. If educated, highly skilled, and affluent people tend to marry each other, that by itself will tend to increase inequality. About one-third of the inequality increase in the United States between 1967 and 2007 can be explained by assortative mating, according to research by Koen Decancq, Andreas Peichl and Philippe Van Kerm. For countries in the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), assortative mating accounted for an average of 11 percent of increased inequality between the early 1980s and early 2000s.

Homogamy has and will become more prevalent, and from a competitive and collaborative standpoint it is not a good thing strategically for the Black community to forgo marriage, especially amongst our college educated.

 

[SuaveyBoi115]

Exactly. That's all I'm saying.

People can try to convince themselves otherwise by naming outliers but most HS grads aren't outliers. They are working normal jobs paying $35-45K.

Man I had to go back to school this semester because this retail jobs ain’t going to cut it. And also every freaking job post is asking for a degree damn near . I don’t know if my friend was lying or not but he told me this Coffee barista job he needed a bachelors

 

[MoneyTron]

Man I had to go back to school this semester because this retail Steeze ain’t cutting it. And also every freaking job post is asking for a degree damn near. I don’t know if my friend was lying or not but he told me this Coffee barista job he needed a bachelors

Good for you breh.

Any type of post-secondary education whether that be 2 year college, 4 year college, trade, or whatever can only help long-term all things being equal.

 

[Blankthawtz]

Good thing I got my college degree and wife already......

 

[Menna]

The most dangerous person is the world is a broke and lone male....lol no its not

So someone that has little resources and is lonely is most dangerous....All these professors are so heavy intellectual where there experience at? THe on the campus 70hrs a week...anyone can make a point when they write an article doesnt make it fact

 

[The Wall Is Undefeated!]

I can't wait until it comes crashing down.

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

There is a reason Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, white supremacist all recruit sexually frustrated uneducated unemployed young men

So I think the professor contradicts himself in this article (unless its taken out of context, which I don't think it was). He first cites a reason why men aren't attending college is that they have more options to make money than women, but then later in the article he says that a broke and lonely man is the most dangerous thing in the world and we are producing too many of them. So young men are making decent money doing construction work, they wouldn't be broke now, would they?



Could you elaborate?



Not gonna lie, I had a similar comment, but I wanted to actually have some decent discourse in this thread.

Young men in those blue collar positions will make more money than a broke college student or recent graduate but women with college degrees will go on to earn more throughout their careers overtime.