melechalmaklo
If 700 boys come a year and 5 years left there are 17 boys, clearly $$$ is NOT causing the crisis. It is simply a derivative because we live in a takers world. If the boys have the hammer they have the ability to take advantage. Even out the numbers and the money problem get greatly alleviated.
melechalmaklo:
Regrading the numbers there were 17 age 27, 17 age 28 and a small handful older
Haifa girls: By far the overwhelming majority of boys in BMG are 21-25 probable more like 21-24, but I don’t have up do date numbers.
Tzippi: The answer to your question is to frightening to contemplate. In ner yisroel there are 6 boys (maybe a couple more) who are single and over 26. Certainly at a certain point boys leave BMG and go elsewhere or to work. But at 27 (less than five years after arriving) VERY few have left, which is why i choose to use that age as the barometer.