Post by jeffolie on Aug 10, 2011 10:56:48 GMT -6
"What’s Happening to Men?"
Men not good fathers "...The profound economic changes that have led to female success and male stagnation have also transformed our culture and its expectations for men...."
The piece below restates with much documentation alot of what I have pointed to for at least 2 years.
Women do not want 'broke ass men' around the house as husbands and now have children anyways. 40% of American children (30% white, 50% hispanic, blacks now are a small portion of children born) are born out of wedlock and extremely few children today reach 18 with their biological father as the husband to their biological mother or as a caregiver.
Men do not care.
Men no longer care if they are married and are more than willing to father children anyways, out of wedlock. Women view men as unreliable income earners more so now than before and as potentially additional emotional burdens that the women might have to provide emotional and financial support for in addition to raising her children. Men no longer aspire to be the 'sole provider' and often no longer aspire to be the long term financial support for any children they might spawn nor support the spawns' mother.
The below piece touches on this similar trends that have been in place in Northern Europe and Japan for at least a decade.
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What’s Happening to Men?
"...The second and related theory about why men are falling behind has it that today’s labor market prizes female strengths more than male strengths. The manufacturing economy, the one that ironically gave women the household revolution that helped to liberate them, relied on physical strength and endurance. Perhaps there were women who could be men’s equals in the steel mills, on the auto line, digging in mines, building bridges, or laboring as lumberjacks, bricklayers, or roofers. But there weren’t many. Good jobs today are another breed. They rely on traits like organizational and planning skills, aesthetic awareness, an ability to collaborate, and what are called “people skills.”..."
"....a third, more existential explanation, for the male problem. The economic independence of women and the collapse of marriage norms have deprived men of the primary social role that incentivized their achievement. Adult manhood has almost universally been equated with marriage and fatherhood. Boys grew up knowing that they had inescapable future demands on them. There were exceptions, of course. In polygamous societies, low status men often had neither wives nor children; in others some males became priests and some, warriors and soldiers. But in most human societies, men knew that they were expected to become providers. Why have men agreed to do all of those dangerous, boring, dirty, exhausting jobs? Because people were depending on them. Evolutionary psychologists would point out it’s not insignificant that many of those dependents shared their genes...."
"...As the manufacturing economy declined, ... men could not find the decent jobs they had once relied on.... women chose to have children on their own. Sons grew up observing that men were of little consequence to family life, which in turn gave them less incentive to adapt to changes in the labor market or more generally to become reliably productive husbands and fathers. With little hope for finding suitable husbands, ...women came to take single motherhood for granted. ...."
"...The profound economic changes that have led to female success and male stagnation have also transformed our culture and its expectations for men...."
www.cato-unbound.org/2011/08/08/kay-hymowitz/whats-happening-to-men/
Men not good fathers "...The profound economic changes that have led to female success and male stagnation have also transformed our culture and its expectations for men...."
The piece below restates with much documentation alot of what I have pointed to for at least 2 years.
Women do not want 'broke ass men' around the house as husbands and now have children anyways. 40% of American children (30% white, 50% hispanic, blacks now are a small portion of children born) are born out of wedlock and extremely few children today reach 18 with their biological father as the husband to their biological mother or as a caregiver.
Men do not care.
Men no longer care if they are married and are more than willing to father children anyways, out of wedlock. Women view men as unreliable income earners more so now than before and as potentially additional emotional burdens that the women might have to provide emotional and financial support for in addition to raising her children. Men no longer aspire to be the 'sole provider' and often no longer aspire to be the long term financial support for any children they might spawn nor support the spawns' mother.
The below piece touches on this similar trends that have been in place in Northern Europe and Japan for at least a decade.
selected portions:
=========================
What’s Happening to Men?
"...The second and related theory about why men are falling behind has it that today’s labor market prizes female strengths more than male strengths. The manufacturing economy, the one that ironically gave women the household revolution that helped to liberate them, relied on physical strength and endurance. Perhaps there were women who could be men’s equals in the steel mills, on the auto line, digging in mines, building bridges, or laboring as lumberjacks, bricklayers, or roofers. But there weren’t many. Good jobs today are another breed. They rely on traits like organizational and planning skills, aesthetic awareness, an ability to collaborate, and what are called “people skills.”..."
"....a third, more existential explanation, for the male problem. The economic independence of women and the collapse of marriage norms have deprived men of the primary social role that incentivized their achievement. Adult manhood has almost universally been equated with marriage and fatherhood. Boys grew up knowing that they had inescapable future demands on them. There were exceptions, of course. In polygamous societies, low status men often had neither wives nor children; in others some males became priests and some, warriors and soldiers. But in most human societies, men knew that they were expected to become providers. Why have men agreed to do all of those dangerous, boring, dirty, exhausting jobs? Because people were depending on them. Evolutionary psychologists would point out it’s not insignificant that many of those dependents shared their genes...."
"...As the manufacturing economy declined, ... men could not find the decent jobs they had once relied on.... women chose to have children on their own. Sons grew up observing that men were of little consequence to family life, which in turn gave them less incentive to adapt to changes in the labor market or more generally to become reliably productive husbands and fathers. With little hope for finding suitable husbands, ...women came to take single motherhood for granted. ...."
"...The profound economic changes that have led to female success and male stagnation have also transformed our culture and its expectations for men...."
www.cato-unbound.org/2011/08/08/kay-hymowitz/whats-happening-to-men/