Sure, if you include the chores he needs to do because he can’t afford an at home babysitter.
Being in Kollel is a life of Mistapek B’muat, and an at-home babysitter is a luxury that most can’t afford (even those who work), especially during the early years of a marriage. But if you want to call “full time” 11.5+ hours, I won’t quibble. Besides, who says the wife can’t pick up and drop off, she does everything else! And if the shver pays for the live in, you are Modeh?
Do you agree with the other points?
So there aren’t enough learning boys, and aren’t enough working boys, and it’s kollel’s fault. Kollel makes boys disappear, I guess.
Yes, it eats them alive, and the homicide unit is still looking for them. Perhaps PBA sat on them and they were squashed flat. 🙂
Seriously though, you missed what I said. It is still the girls needing to marry early, NOT the boys wanting to be a member of an institute of Torah learning. If only all the girls wanted to marry kollel but wouldn’t go out until 24-25 like the boys in BMG…… As I said earlier:
Besides, it’s not that they want to marry them, it’s that they put their self-worth into being married to them, and therefore need to be married ASAP. If they were willing to wait 5 years we wouldn’t have the same crisis.