DY – I thought about the issue some more. While I still agree with what I wrote above (1394920), I decided that there is another side to it, and that the other side is also correct.
While on the one hand, I do think that there are problems with calling it a crisis as stated earlier, I also think there is a positive aspect to referring to it as a crisis.
For one thing, it makes others (non-singles) more aware of the seriousness of the issue and therefore more aware of the need to see what they can do to help. It also makes them aware of how difficult being single can be, and therefore of the need to try to help singles in general (not just in terms of helping with shidduchim).
Additionally, while on the one hand, the singles need to work on having bitachon and being “sameach b’chelkam”, it is also good to have a reminder once in a while of the fact that they are missing something so that they will daven with more kavana.
So, both sides are correct: It is both wrong and right to call it a shidduch crisis.
That may be a paradox, but that is not a problem in Yiddishkeit.