“Take the girls up to YU. Lots of available single males, all shomrei torah umitzvos.”
I suggested this to the mom of an unmarried yeshivish young woman. Mom didn’t have a problem with it, but the young woman herself rejected it out of hand, as she had been brainwashed into thinking that YU is treif.
“Besides isnt that illegal in the US? (not that it cant change at the rate we’re going…)”
It is indeed illegal but there hasn’t been a prosecution for it in decades.
“The basis of the age gap theory is about as statistically sound as charliehall’s quote about Medicare overhead being 1/5th that of private insurance. “
Sorry, but it is a fact.
And it is also a fact that as long as equal numbers of boys and girls are born each year, an increasing population means that girls will have to accept younger husbands if they are ever going to get married.
“Girls (parents) should seriously start with shidduchim at 18 barring extraordinary circumstances, and in any case discuss with g’dolei and manhigei Yisroel how to proceed.”
Boys, too — at least according to the Mishnah.