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DaMoshe: The CC wrote a letter decrying the tznius situation *in his time*. Besides, you now seem to be saying what mannster613 wrote was true in the CC’s time but became untrue nowadays. That doesn’t seem quite sensible.
rebdoniel, your point about the high divorce rate does not support your conclusion that people should get married older. The high divorce rate is in a society where people DO get married much older than their low 20s. And still their divorce rate is so high despite getting married late.
I don’t doubt LeebaW’s sincerity in thinking her suggestions are accurate in that allowing a less restrictive religious lifestyle will encourage children who might have gone otd to remain religious albeit less frum. I just think she, and other ord’ers who think that, are mistaken and wrong in that assumption. I do not believe allowing a less restrictive religious lifestyle will encourage someone to remain frum. Anecdotally I think it is obvious that children from less restrictive religious lifestyles go otd at a notably greater rate than children from more insular and restrictive religious lifestyles. And I also think the fact that LeebaW is still not religious even though she could be religious while less restrictive, belies her contention that less restrictive Judaism will result in more frumkeit.
LeebaW, to reiterate BetShemeshInExile, how can you make your above suggestions if you yourself remain otd even though, now, you could make the choice of leading a less restrictive religious lifestyle and yet you choose to lead an irreligious lifestyle? Apparently the option of leading a less restrictive religious lifestyle is not encouraging you to not be irreligious.