"Who are these women who are so blithely continuing their lives as their only shot at anything approaching fulfillment — young marriage and immediate childbearing — slips inexorably through their fingers? Surely they must be a minority. And yet! Marketer Ann Mack tells the AP that the numbers of these deluded hags may be increasing: “A growing number of women are taking an alternate life route that doesn’t include marriage as an essential checkpoint."

Women Oddly Un-Panicked By Declining Marriage Rates

Hey guys, marriage rates at 51%, yeah I’m cool, fine, so smooth with it too.

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