MM Haifa girl: You are more than welcom to go the encourage polygamy route as a method to alleviate the crisis, much Haztlacha.
I will continue to encourage the agenda that the Rosehi Yesiva who are advising the NASI project are suggesting.
cherrybim: the numbers have been presented/discussed in this very forum to death (see numerous earlier threads). I was not the person who conducted the studies and I am not a mathematician. Either look at the old threads or contact NASI and they will provide you with whatever data you are looking for. (their contact info is in this weeks YATED page 7)
Tzippy: Assuming boys graduate HS at 17 and start dating at 22 thats HS+5. If they graduate at 18 then it HS+4. I’m not sure for the purposes of our discusiion that it really makes a difference. Clearly the boys start dating at a considerably older age than the girls.