The highest priority for young men who voted for Trump is: Having Children!
The lowest priority for young women who voted for Harris is: Having Children!
Only 6% of female Harris voters said that they thought Getting Married and Having Children is important.
This is very bad when you consider that most young women are Democrat voters. (58% of Gen Z women voted for Harris, while 56% of Gen Z men voted for Trump.)
Meanwhile:
Among that minority of Trump-voting young women, we find Being Married and Having Children still way down the list, but at least making a decent showing. At the top are Financial Independence and Fulfilling Job/Career, followed by Owning Own Home. I don’t think they mean that their husband has financial independence and owns the shared family home. Even in this Trump-voting minority, young women are all-in on Independence. Of course they will change their mind later. But, during the Peak Marriage Years of 18-22, and up to Age 25, they will be swayed by this kind of indoctrination. Who are those Trump-voting Men going to marry? It is a pretty small pool.
I say that you will have to look for young women — Age 16-22 — who want to be Wives and Mothers. I would prioritize the Stay At Home Wife (and Mother). A woman who prioritizes being a Stay At Home Wife can still work full-time before she becomes a Mother. But, typically, this is not so career-oriented, since she will be planning to leave this job before too long, certainly by Age 26 or so. Peak Childbearing Years are 18-32. You want to have all your children done by Age 32 (at least three), not starting then.
Of course the Stay At Home Wife doesn’t prioritize Financial Independence either, except shared Financial Independence with her husband. She happily lets him pay for everything. But, of course, she is also very frugal, if necessary.
As rare as these women are, they are also underappreciated today. You can even find actual virgins. You just marry them — preferably, before Age 22.
I agree with this. College is the best place to find a future wife, or husband.
However, this conflicts with the college program itself. Unless a couple is the same age, one will graduate before the other, probably the man since women prefer men a little older. This means that the woman must quit college, to follow her man somewhere. This was actually pretty common in the 1950s and 1960s, when women commonly quit college if they got married. Mission accomplished!
This made some sense in the 1950s and 1960s, when college was not so expensive as today, and also, the people that went to college could afford it. College enrollment was a lot lower then than now, limited to the upper middle class.
For me personally, it was not that hard to find a future wife. But, it would have been very hard to find a wife similar to the girls that I went to college with — basically Top 1% girls, in terms of intelligence and the other sorting factors for top colleges, that still had most of the pleasant virtues they did when they were 20. Today, more than in the past, I have some regret that I did not have children with a High-IQ woman. My own wife is average at best regarding IQ (probably below 100), and our son is a little above average (about 115). I knew some 140+ IQ women, who I probably could have married. That would have been interesting. But, my own wife is still a rather good wife, probably in the Top 10% of wives. So, you don’t have to be all that smart to be good wife. Many high-IQ women are bad wives, if they ever get a chance to be wives.
Today, I think that the High IQ women in particular should plan on having a large number of children with a High IQ man. If you are so lucky, at least four. Then stay home and homeschool them. Any High IQ woman is going to be an exemplary homeschooler. (Homeschooling largely consists of doing what High IQ kids did voluntarily when in school, which is, read a lot of books.)
Most high-IQ women are not that attractive. They tend to be Mid at best; and also, they often do not prioritize clothing, makeup and that sort of thing. Sometimes they get kinda chubby from all the sedentary studying. If you are one of these women, then you should make a serious effort at least in dress and presentation (you don’t need makeup), plus diet (food quality) and exercise.
So, if you happen to be a High IQ woman, remember that you can and should devote a little effort to such things. Just be like Cindy Crawford (IQ reportedly 154):
Cindy is, of course, gorgeous, and hair like that doesn’t just happen by itself. But, makeup here is minimal, and the clothes are nice but certainly achievable. “Naturally gorgeous” might seem like an impossibility to some women today, but I tell you that it is not that hard to achieve if you are 20 years old, and don’t make a mess of things with noserings and short blue hair. No fake boobs or other “enhancements.” (Cindy is, reportedly, a natural 34B.)
I suggest also today that these high-achieving high-IQ girls not only find a future husband at college, but also, remain a virgin before marriage. Actually this is not so hard to do, since many college girls are actually virgins, particularly at the better schools. Since this kind of high-IQ girl also has a strong long-term focus and impulse control, not surprisingly, they are also virgins. Nearly 76% of all Freshmen women at Harvard are virgins.
Since you will probably get married right after graduation anyway, you won’t be waiting that long. If your future husband is a year or two older, then get formally engaged (wear a ring), and finish your studies while he is off somewhere else. Then get married immediately afterwards.
For men, you don’t really need to be able to support a family to get married. You can just get married. Two young people, just out of college, can both work and live more cheaply than one alone. You can also travel if you like. You can go here and there, and instead of whoring with someone you meet along the way, you can just have sex with your husband.
If you find a splendid sort of girl in college, why not just marry her? You won’t find anything better later.
In the past, in many cultures, it was customary for a newly married couple (typically under Age 25) to be provided with a new house, basically by parents. No mortgage.
This was a modest house, of course. But, it was still a place to live, and no mortgage.
This was in line with common expectations of “bride price” or dowry. But, instead of paying parents, people would give the new couple some starting capital, or wealth, in the form of a house.
A “house” in those days, for a middle-class couple just starting, might be a 400sf “Little House on the Prairie.” In urban areas, it might be an apartment (today condo) also of about 400sf. 400sf might not seem like much, but it is adequate for a family of four.
For a detached house, it was probably common for parents, and the groom, along with family and friends, to build the house themselves.
What might this look like today?
Basically, a 400sf condo today, in an urban environment, or a similar detached house, should cost about $120,000. This is about $300/sf (woodframe walkup construction) X 400sf.
$120,000 is a lot, but it is an achievable amount, particularly if a similar sum is not expended on college education — or a $40,000 wedding.
I have a friend who bought some land. He is going to build a house there. Basically he will build it himself, with the help of some friends who are specialists in electrical, plumbing etc. Probably, you also have some friends who can do this. (I do.) It would make a nice wedding present. You pay for the materials, and they contribute their time and expertise.
In Hamlet, Shakespeare has Hamlet tell his girl Ophelia to “Get Thee To A Nunnery!” This was Elizabethan slang for a brothel. But, actual real-life nunneries in those days often had a large population of “fallen women” who couldn’t look forward to any home and family in the future. So, it really was a collection of former whores. These nuns would typically be occupied in some useful social service, as a hospital, a school, an orphanage, or the like.
Today we have a genre of “born-again slores,” which is the way it has been since the days of Shakespeare, although perhaps a lot more numerous these days. They should be sent to a nunnery — preferably, a real-life Christian nunnery, which you don’t see much of anymore. There they could do something useful, rather than just being a blight on society. They could even bring their single-mom children, to be raised by the Nuns. I don’t see why not. Unfortunately, the spread of the Welfare State has reduced the need for charitable institutions run by nuns.
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