Reply To: Defining “The Shidduch Crisis”

Gavra, I am kind of assuming that the vast majority in yeshivish circles do want to get married – I am not puk chaziing what you are, I guess. I say “want” in the sense that a boy who’s 20 and still plans to go to yeshiva in E.Y. does not (yet) want to get married, while a girl that age back from sem (or if she -gasp- didn’t go) is usually “in the parsha”.

BTW, tav l’meisav doesn’t seem to address numbers, just how much she’s willing to “settle”. Just saying.

Of course definitions are imprecise, but that doesn’t preclude making generalizations, especially when discussing a societal issue.