Afraid to Commit: Smart Young Men Want to Wait on Marriage

So the smart men of the world want kids, houses and lots of nookie. And they want women also; but not with marriage. Not until they’ve aged a bit. So says the latest study to probe the minds of America’s smart young men, aged 25 to 33. The study found 10 reasons why men won’t commit. Reasons ranging from the ease of finding sex partners to the desire to avoid financial risks of divorce. The authors of the study, called The State of Our Unions, said they were puzzled by their findings, based on face-to-face group interviews with 60 heterosexual men in Chicago, Washington, D.C. New Jersey, and Houston. The majority of these men are employed full-time with reported annual incomes between $20,000 and $36,000. Most have had some college or hold a BA. None of the men were married; three had kids. The study also reached some additional conclusions. Among them: The men were highly critical of divorce. But they feel that couples should break up if they fall out of love, even... (more...)