Not so long ago, the average American man in his 20s had achieved most of the milestones of adulthood: a high-school diploma, financial independence, marriage and children. Today, most men in their 20s hang out in a novel sort of limbo, a hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance. This "pre-adulthood" has much to recommend it, especially for the college-educated. But it's time to state what has become obvious to legions of frustrated young women: It doesn't bring out the best in men.
"We are sick of hooking up with guys," writes the comedian Julie Klausner, author of a touchingly funny 2010 book, "I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters and Other Guys I've Dated." What Ms. Klausner means by "guys" is males who are not boys or men but something in between. "Guys talk about 'Star...
Genesis 2:24 - "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
Proverbs 18:22 - "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD."
Psalm 78:63 - "...their maidens were not given to marriage."
I Corinthians 13:11 - "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
When one refuses to "be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man" (I Kings 2:2), women are frustrated because they have no mature male counterparts. Thus, there is no one to marry and no way of begetting future generations. I would call it a never ending vicious cycle, but sadly, this sin will end many family bloodlines.
There still is good men in America. There in the pulpits, and most young American men are not listening to the good men of the pulpits. Same as in Canada.
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