Reply To: Defining “The Shidduch Crisis”

Kapusta, there are more girls in shidduchim because the population is ka”h rapidly growing, so each subsequent year, there are more children, and the girls born three years later (so there are many more children) are being paired with the boys born three years earlier (when fewer children were born).

Apushatayid, nothing to do with elderly dying, everything to do with population growth, the effect of which far exceeds the small percentage of boys over girls born in a particular year.