AZ, I bowed out earlier to let you have center stage. You seem to enjoy it much more than I do. But your last comment is so sickening in its arrogant, condescending tone that you got me back.
The age gap is certainly an interesting theory; I would find it more interesting if I saw you hire someone with a little more mathematical clout. How about a few nice Jewish accountants or actuaries to come onboard? I also find it interesting that some of the Roshei Yeshiva who kindly lent their approval to NASI are not practically following your advice in their own families, or among their close talmidim. Do they have other considerations we don’t know about?
What irks me to no end is the way you insist on burying your head in the sand in refusing to consider other changes in societal norms that have arisen in the last 20 or so years.
I won’t belabor the point I already made many posts ago. But you asked me how many girls in my grad class had 7 siblings, or 10 kids in their families? Answer- some, maybe one third or less. Yes, today there are generally larger families in our community. But the ratio of males to females cannot have changed, as those larger families, presumably, are not made up of girls exclusively.
A topic for discussion- how have larger families affected affluence and financial stability? And just to make the discussion more effective: Add to this the societal change nobody thinks to mention; i.e. the steady, exponential rise in the number of young men wanting to defer involvement in their own parnassa for years (the number of years also steadily going up); and the number of young ladies (-arguably greater than men, as seminaries seem to be doing a finer job inculcating these ideals) who want more and more years devoted to Torah learning exclusively on the part of their husbands.
The refusal on your part (and on the part of others with influence) to broaden the discussion to examine the issue from all sides, will only exacerbate the problem we are dealing with already. I know too many people dealing with older singles to ignore your smug, overbearing attempts at drowning out any voices that don’t align with your idea.