Single and Glad of It

Pity the young woman who seeks a mate from the ranks of today’s young men. The lads are an unpromising bunch for the roles of husband and father. Unlike the men themselves, this conclusion becomes irresistible as one reads the latest “State of Our Unions” report from the National Marriage Project, housed at Rutgers University. Based on new focus-group research among never-married heterosexual men age 25-33, plus data from other sources, the report says these guys “express a desire to marry and have children sometime in their lives, but they are in no hurry.”