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April 16, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
10:18
Married Women Are Better Off Than Single Women
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Married women have better heart and mental health than single women.
Huh.
You believe that?
They're even healthier.
Yet young women are choosing to forego marriage at all-time highs.
Thanks to the morons who teach them at college, high school, and elementary school.
They are.
They're morons.
Most teachers are unimpressive, and it's so frightening for me to say that.
It's one of the most difficult things I say.
I was raised in a Jewish tradition that reveres teachers as much as parents.
Do you know that on the Day of Atonement, there is a series of sins for which one bangs one's chest?
Not hard, but symbolically.
They're called alchit for the sin of, for the sin of, for the sin of, for the sin of.
One of them is zilzul horim umorim for mocking parents and teachers.
It's a religious prayer on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
Did you mistreat a teacher?
That is how revered in Jewish tradition teachers have been.
They have taken that reverence and spit on it.
Hey, let's have...
Let's have...
What's the call again?
The story hour?
With the guys...
Drag Queen.
Drag Queen, yes.
Why don't I remember Drag Queen?
I think part of the reason is because it doesn't make full sense.
Anyway, Drag Queen Story Hour!
Yes, let me teach you about racism and sexism and homophobia and Islamophobia and xenophobia.
And of course, we're going to go on strike, we teachers, if you don't close down the classes like the Chicago Teachers Association.
The U.S. is battling an epidemic of sad, anxious young women.
Despite the surge in our opportunities and freedoms over the past 50 years, it appears we are more depressed than ever.
Obviously written by a woman.
Dr. Wendy Wang, Director of Research at the Institute for Family Studies.
Studies suggest that around a third of all adult women suffer some sort of mental health problems, compared to a fifth of men.
You can see a lot of these mental health problems in women by the screamers at all these demonstrations they attend.
Yeah.
Pro-Hamas is the latest.
Environment.
The moronic.
What was the day of the Million Women March when Donald Trump was inaugurated?
My sense was if you're married to a woman who went on that march and in your heart you didn't think it was a big deal that because you don't think women are all that persecuted in America?
and you don't think that the Trump comments were of particular importance, and they were not because they were made in private.
This is a wisdom I learned.
I had more wisdom when I was in middle school.
than the vast majority of people who write for the New York Times today.
And so did all of my classmates.
It's very important that I add that.
I'm not bragging.
I'm bragging about my education.
I knew that what people said in private did not matter nearly as much as what they said in public.
It was taught to me.
I didn't figure this out by getting older.
I was taught this.
I was taught wisdom.
Because I went to a religious school.
Religious Christian schools.
Real religious ones, though.
Most Christian schools have little to do with Christianity.
Most Jewish schools have little to do with Judaism.
Because the left has taken over in so many cases.
You're married to someone who went on the Million Women March.
My heart goes out to you.
Unless you agree with her, in which case my heart doesn't go out to you.
You deserve her.
A third of all adult women suffer some sort of mental health problems.
Yeah.
You know where this isn't true, incidentally?
In Israel.
Israel, which before October 7th was...
Regularly rated as one of the happiest countries in the world, it is also one of the only countries in the Western world in which the population reproduces itself.
Jewish women, and certainly Muslim women in Israel, give birth to quite a number of children, far more than Jews in America do, in the case of the Jews in Israel.
The Jews of America are preoccupied with liberal ideologies.
This is particularly apparent, she writes, in the 18 to 25 age group, 41% of which are said to suffer anxiety, according to Harvard University research.
41% of women ages 18 to 25. That's a lot.
That's almost half.
Hmm.
Over the last six years, the number of women reporting depression increased 10% from 26% to 36% in just six years, 2017 to 2023, according to Gallup poll of over 5,000 U.S. according to Gallup poll of over 5,000 U.S. adults.
With 20 years under my belt as a sociologist studying the lifestyle patterns of Americans as well as their fulfillment over time, I believe I have stumbled on one possible explanation of the sadness.
It might appear a controversial take.
Too few women are getting married.
That's right.
Only 28 in 1,000 women were married in the U.S. in 2021. Compared to 76 in 1000 in 1965. Those poor things, according to Betty Friedan.
We're going to look up when The Feminine Mystique was written.
It would be fascinating to see what year that really, really pathetic book was written.
I read it recently, within the last two years.
It was morose.
I may have mentioned to you that in my late 20s, I debated Betty Friedan in Los Angeles.
Oh man, is that perfect?
She wrote it and it was published in 1963.
And in 1965, the number of women getting married peaked.
There are not many people who could say they did as much damage as Betty Friedan.
She was miserable, and like most miserable people, they want others to join them.
Because misery loves company.
Is there a study to show that?
Only 47% of women ages 18 to 55 were married in the U.S. in 2022. So that means less than half, or fewer than half, of women...
Under 55 were married in the United States in 2022. Wow.
That's astonishing.
72% in 1970. This is U.S. Census data.
So 47% under 55, women under 55, were married in 2022. They were either never married or divorced and not remarried or, or much more rarely widowed and never remarried.
Yes.
How many parents would rather say, my 25-year-old daughter is married and she has a child on the way?
Or my 25-year-old daughter just got a PhD at Princeton?
That's the question.
That's the genesis.
What we need now is an exodus.
How's that?
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