Reply To: NASI Initiative

passfan:

“But it won’t cause some of the current younger girls to not have a husband; it’ll just cause them to get married at an older age than they would have under the system as it stands currently.”

That is not necessarily true. This is what I was referring to above when I said that predictions like these are assuming that everything else will remain “constant” despite the changing of a “variable”. You are assuming that the same girls will get married just at a later age. But says who? Guys that they were being redt to (and subsequently marrying), will now be redt to older girls and marry them instead. In a best case scenario, these same girls will get married but at a later age and to different guys. In a worst case scenario, many of these girls will be looking for a shidduch for a lot longer period with some maybe being left out. But either way, there will be a much larger shidduch crisis of “older” girls, down the road, due to the attempted manipulating of the market.

“Actually, all that is needed is for the AVERAGE age gap to be about zero. So one chosson could be 5 years older than his kalla, while another kalla could be 5 years older than her chosson.”

Yes, but this holds true with or without the NASI project. The point I am raising is that the project might end up having the opposite effect of closing the age gap.

“it might fix the problem -say- 85%”

How do you get that percentage?

Please don’t get me wrong. I applaud NASI for attempting to help solve the problem. I just feel that that there are always unintended consequences, and that this might not be the best way to go about things.