@Bastethotep #109606
My childhood was in the 1950s and 1960s. I thought nearly everyone got married and had children. I did hear of old maids and confirmed bachelors, but they are not common. I assumed I would get married, but I never did.
When I turned thirty, the guy turned serious on the first date. When he was driving me back home, he told me he thought five children would be good number for a family. (He knew my age, so I thought that’s roughly a baby every two years.) Near the end of the date, he asked me if I ever been engaged. I told him no and he smiled a big smile, then said “You’ll enjoy it!” I thought I’d give him a chance and went on a few dates with me. I should have screamed at him when he bought a six pact of beer and opened up a can while driving down a busy road on a Saturday night.
After a month of our first date, he phoned me to ask me about my feelings for him. I told him that I had no romantic feelings for him. He was devastated. He told me that he broke up with an another girl so that he could concentrate on me. He said, “Not being married and not having a family is no way to live!”
In the 1970s, George Gilder wrote about men needing to get married and have families. Without marriage and family, men turned into violent and self-destructive “naked nomads.” Women have to marry and have children. They must be homemakers to save men and civilization. I like to give men more credit myself.
The Left does not hate marriage; it believes people shouldn’t be shoehorned into roles that uncomfortable for them. If Root were Duggar version Christian, he would have never divorced his first wife.