Reply To: The Math of the Age Gap

AZ:

So what you are indicating is that since there are slightly more males than females in the population, it is okay to have a slight average age gap of one year older males in shidduchim.

Frum family sizes in Europe were on average larger than the average frum families in America.

What I am suggesting is:

a. The previous generations since Rabbeinu Tam’s Cherem would have had the same issue we have.

b. Was anything done about it?

c. Did it work itself out on its own for the past 1,000 years in the Ashekenaz communities?

d. Were there hundreds of thousands of frum woman who had no men to marry for the past 1,000 years?