This will probably start a firestorm.

Couldn't agree more - turn it all off. You only hear part of any story that is "chosen" for you to hear. Very hard to tell what is real and what is hype.

I agree with many of the other posts. Please stop watching FOX news.

I don't watch any cable news at all and in fact, this bit of fiction has been around so long it pre-dates Fox News.

It's simple. A guy who thinks he can get by just because he's a source of income, regardless of what else he does (or doesn't do) is probably going to have a hard time staying married. That's not a bad thing. A good husband is a lot more than an ATM.

You should read Warren Farrell's "The Myth of Male Power." It would change your perspective on this issue entirely. We call your perspective the gynocentric feminist perspective, it's an ideological perspective, not a perspective supported by history.

I don't think men are that happy about marrying either in these times, and It would be in their best interest to opt out of marriage entirely and not get roped in with common-law marriage laws. There is very good book on the topic called 'Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters" by Dr. Helen Smith.

I will check out The Myth of Male Power and Men on Strike, as I'm always interested in differing viewpoints. My personal theory is that men have ruled the world since the beginning of history, and have always created social constructs that benefit them first and foremost which would include marriage. Put simply, it gave them a way to own and control women. Statistics have shown, even now, that married men report a higher level of overall happiness than single men (not the case with married versus single women), and men remarry more often and more quickly after divorce or widowhood than women do. Despite false protests to the contrary, marriage is a male invention - not a trap that women set to ensnare men against their will. And if modern men are becoming disillusioned with marriage, it's most likely because the old ways of the subservient wife are being challenged and rejected by today's educated, wage-earning woman who no longer sees her life goal as being the caretaker of a man.

Case in point: You don't see mail-order husband businesses, yet thousands of men in the Western world essentially purchase a desperate, third-world woman out of a catalog - often a woman that they cannot even effectively communicate with due to language barriers. These men most often explain their motivation as being that they can't find a "traditional" woman in their own countries. So who benefits most from this kind of arrangement? The woman gets to trade her surroundings for one of more comparative luxury, but she is just a servant - a cook, maid, sex worker and brood mare. Maybe a life of less struggle than the one she left, but still not the life that most women would, or at least should, choose for themselves.

there are enough of us now. we don't have to go off and natter to ourselves in an uppity tone about this bs anymore. we can just turn right around and tell these f***s (provided they r talking to us in person rather than at us from a cathode ray) to shove it. or better yet, don't even give them the time of day. just go on raising your kids/working your job/living your life/shooting your gun/driving your truck/running your business/whatever it is you do and let THEM natter about us. i repeat, THERE ARE ENOUGH OF US NOW. it is OUR world--don't act like you don't belong. it's the stone-age brains who don't belong here anymore. let them stew. they will be out-competed and die off eventually.

me, i'm going to buck the trend by not having kids or getting married (shocking!). i don't care what anyone says about me. not listening.

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Okay, not really.
Too much generalization.

I will weigh in on this and make you all hate me. I am not sure the woman's movement did society as many favors as its participates would like to believe. Sure I can work now and get paid well but I cannot stay home with my kids because our society now depends on 2 incomes to make ends meet in most markets. I can have a career but it cost me the most important job. There is not an option now for those of us who want to raise our children ourselves. I can either save towards retirement and own a home or I can be a mom to my little ones while they are little ones. I have to pay someone else to do the most important job in the world so I can go give my time to some corporation doing something that will matter to no one when I am gone. Its not a very good trade if you ask me. Plus since we are all free love and independence men treat us like a disposable napkin. There is always another girl willing to put out and why should he have to support us or our kids since we can do it ourselves. We are taken more seriously in our professional lives at the expense of our personal lives. Yes the movement has degraded the values of our society because we cannot be there to instil those values in our children now and the schools and day cares are not going to do the job for us. As women tell me you do not feel the pain of guilt everytime you drop your babies off for someone else to raise. That is what we traded for. I am very smart and fairly good at my job but what I do each day there is not worth what I am missing out on doing.

I won't go as far as to blame the women's lib movement for our economy. I believe my family could survive on one income if we downgraded a lot. It would mean a lot of sacrifice, but it would be do-able.