Logician:
If 23 year old boys marry 22 or even 21 year old girls instead of 19 and 20 year olds the problem will be greatly mitigated and iy”h disappear.
The point is for boys to marry girls who are NOT so much younger than they.
Sushe: The problem is a realitely new phenomana based on two realitviely new issues.
1. Family sizes (population growht) has B”H grwon considerable. In the 70’s the number of families with 10 childrend was ver very few
2. the rigid societal structure that boys don’t begin dating enmasse untill 22/23 was not in effect in the 70’s.
hence in the 70’s no shidduch crisis.