Reply To: Defining “The Shidduch Crisis”

To explain further, since our population is growing, there are more first graders than fourth graders (with the number of students increasing every year) OF BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS. But, hypothetically speaking, we are trying to match first grade girls to fourth grade boys. The bigger the age disparity, the greater the numbers discrepancy. If we’d match fourth grade girls to first grade boys, we’d have a reverse crisis with more boys remaining “unmatched”, compounded by the fact, if correct, that there are more boys being born every year.