Not Your Parents’ Shidduch Scene: Modern Orthodox Dating in Historical Perspective (The Commentator)- Dating News

If both many men and women do not socialize except when dating, as noted, why is it that so many more women are looking to get married so soon after starting college? This disparity between the pressures felt by men and those felt by women ties into another facet of the difficult shidduch scene students find themselves in – a difference in the age groups Modern Orthodox men and women are willing to date. In other words, do women desire to marry young only because men want to marry younger women or do young men postpone marriage only because they can always marry available, younger women? Yet since men and women are often ready to marry at different stages in their lives, and men are much more willing to stay unmarried for longer than women are, they sometimes miss the boat and enter a cycle of continual dating. read more

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