Ubi:
I just found this post of yours from earlier.
1. giving all girls dates might not help them ALL get married, and we will cross that bridge when we get there.
sure seems like it a important bridge to cross. Especially since a casual observation would show that enough girls are getting dates to suffice for the guys to get married…..
2. My guess is enough guys marry girls their age or older to alleviate the “gap”
bad guess. if that was so, then the observation above would be false, like it is by the chassisim. How i wish your guess was correct.
3. So you agree chasidim have a “age gap” albeit smaller but no crises. According to your numbers at 4% increase pr year even if 19 year olds are marrying 18 year olds, that should leave 4% of chassidish girls unmarried.
false, because there are actually more males born every year than females. (which is also why in order to alleviate the crisis we don’t need to close the gap entirely.
Please note: i do not intent to make the statement that the gap caused the observation. i’ll be happy to discuss other possibilities once we agree to the observation. i’m simply addressing what you wrote above.