Do you mean viable options for marriage? Most Brehs don’t even get married though if we’re going by statistics. 42% of bw never get married as opposed to 48% of bm. Even on this very forum, many Brehs promote gmb, and regularly share stories that validate that they shouldn’t get married. Y’all have to really pick a position, if your gmb then this won’t have an impact on viable options. But if you want to get married, there are still a sizable amount of bw who don’t have children and won’t have children unless their married. A few of those women have even posted in this thread. This is why I say that values matter—it doesn’t serve a man to marry a woman who truly doesn’t value marriage, she’s more likely to divorce or leave. Since there are few Brehs who even get married, they will need to focus on the few bw who want what they want too.
based on stats the majority of divorces are filed by women, indicating that perhaps a lot of women for whatever reason don’t like being married. And In our community the divorce rate is high—it’s actually higher than the marriage rate, which means single parent or not, many of these marriages/relationships just aren’t going to last anyway.
Our community has always been at the bottom compared to others, but I do agree that our low marriage rate, high divorce rate and high single parent rate does make things very grim.
But while it is more prevalent in our community, it is slowly becoming a trend in others. I see it as a reflection of our changing society—there was a study that estimated that by 2044 we will have the largest population of single childless woman ever in history.
If you truly want course correction, perhaps the key is to understand what is it about marriage that is causing people to opt out.