To be sure, and the typical single man looks like he just stepped out of the pages of GQ, summers on Martha's Vineyard and races sports cars when he isn't dating super models. For the past 30 years, feminists in academia have instructed young women in the virtues of independence and folly of subjugation to men. Feminists in prime-time television filled their heads with visions of the solo good life. Whenever commentators mentioned Donna Reed, it was with a sneer. Feminists in the news media reported on how women were getting along without Him very well.
Men are unreliable.
Women don't need marriage for fulfillment. In fact, traditional marriage is suffocating. Given this cultural conditioning, it isn't surprising that fewer and fewer women, and men, are marrying. There was a time when people felt an obligation to wed. Marriage signified membership in the club of grown-ups.