aries2756:
The R”Y propose that if boys started dating when they were INDIVIDUALLY ready to and not held back but artificial impediments there would be no harm done. No one is telling anyone when to date. What’s being suggested is to remove the artificial impediments.
No one in this forum is suggesting boys get married at 19 (although chazal did seem to think it was a good idea).
To put it another way. Many boys get married at 22 but far far more get married at 23. Say 1,000 at 22 and 2,000 at 23. (these are not made up numbers) If we could flip flop those numbers and have 2,000 boys getting married at 22 and 1,000 boys getting married at 23 we will have an unbelievable accomplishment. Not a total solution but a very very good start!
Sounds reasonable and very doable to me!
IR: The longer it takes to alleviate the age gap the greater the number of girls who will never get married.