Reply To: Defining “The Shidduch Crisis”

are we still working off of that one study which, if memory serves me, was basically a list of girls and boys who had graduated from specific schools/yeshivas and how many of those were single/married?

I’m not.

I’m working off of the fact that our population is ka”h growing because families average more children, by far, than the replacement rate, and that shidduchim typically start at several years older for boys than for girls, and most shidduchim made reflect that in the age of the chosson and kallah. Do you dispute either of these two facts?

If there are studies showing that there are more unmarried “older” girls than boys, it merely suports the obvious ramifications of those facts.

Any mitigating factors (baalei teshuvah, overseas, etc.) are merely speculation, and counterintuitive.

Those pushing for boys to marry younger have clearly said that they only suggest it for those who, with agreement from their rebbeim, are ready for marriage.