Reply To: Shidduch Crisis ONGOING

A good solution is for all the boys to only date girls their age.
That I believe was the original request of the gedolei hador who signed a letter about this.
We should be seeing that the 23-24 year old girls are getting the MOST dates.
The younger girls should be considered AFTER a boy has already looked into the girls his age who would be suitable for him.
If a boy wants a younger girl, then he should start dating younger….
Is he worried about his authority in the house so needs to make sure to marry a young impressionable girl straight out of seminary so that he can be 5 years older than her and thus ensure she is sufficiently in awe of him? There’s a word for this it’s called “gaavah”…
Honestly the girls who are 2-3 years older are much more mature.
And you will be doing a mitzvah by helping to solve the problem. In that zechus you should have an extra dose of siyatta dishmaya in your shalom bayis.
If even one boy/mother/shadchan sees this and agrees to/redts a shidduch of same-age, the whole thread is worth it.