To follow up on LuL’s post, in a way, the word crisis is self-fulfilling. Girls know there is a shidduch crisis, so their whole approach to dating is more desperate even when they are just starting at a young age. Maybe they will start dating younger that they would really want to, so as not to “miss the boat.” maybe their decisions about who to date and who to marry are compromised by the thought in back of their mind that if it is not this one, maybe they won’t get married at all. And if they are not married by 21, they begin to panic that they becoming one of those infamous statistics, and that just activates the crisis mode even more!
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