Dennis Prager Show - Married Women Are Better Off Than Single Women
Aired: 2024-04-16
Duration: 10:18


=== Why Teachers Matter (10:11) ===

[00:00:00]  Married women have better heart and mental health than single women.
[00:00:05]  Huh.
[00:00:07]  You believe that?
[00:00:09]  They're even healthier.
[00:00:12]  Yet young women are choosing to forego marriage at all-time highs.
[00:00:18]  Thanks to the morons who teach them at college, high school, and elementary school.
[00:00:25]  They are.
[00:00:26]  They're morons.
[00:00:29]  Most teachers are unimpressive, and it's so frightening for me to say that.
[00:00:34]  It's one of the most difficult things I say.
[00:00:36]  I was raised in a Jewish tradition that reveres teachers as much as parents.
[00:00:43]  Do you know that on the Day of Atonement, there is a series of sins for which one bangs one's chest?
[00:00:54]  Not hard, but symbolically.
[00:00:57]  They're called alchit for the sin of, for the sin of, for the sin of, for the sin of.
[00:01:03]  One of them is zilzul horim umorim for mocking parents and teachers.
[00:01:16]  It's a religious prayer on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
[00:01:24]  Did you mistreat a teacher?
[00:01:28]  That is how revered in Jewish tradition teachers have been.
[00:01:35]  They have taken that reverence and spit on it.
[00:01:39]  Hey, let's have...
[00:01:41]  Let's have...
[00:01:45]  What's the call again?
[00:01:47]  The story hour?
[00:01:50]  With the guys...
[00:01:51]  Drag Queen.
[00:01:52]  Drag Queen, yes.
[00:01:53]  Why don't I remember Drag Queen?
[00:01:56]  I think part of the reason is because it doesn't make full sense.
[00:02:00]  Anyway, Drag Queen Story Hour!
[00:02:07]  Yes, let me teach you about racism and sexism and homophobia and Islamophobia and xenophobia.
[00:02:26]  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.
[00:02:40]  The U.S. is battling an epidemic of sad, anxious young women.
[00:02:46]  Despite the surge in our opportunities and freedoms over the past 50 years, it appears we are more depressed than ever.
[00:02:54]  Obviously written by a woman.
[00:02:56]  Dr. Wendy Wang, Director of Research at the Institute for Family Studies.
[00:03:05]  Studies suggest that around a third of all adult women suffer some sort of mental health problems, compared to a fifth of men.
[00:03:13]  You can see a lot of these mental health problems in women by the screamers at all these demonstrations they attend.
[00:03:24]  Yeah.
[00:03:26]  Pro-Hamas is the latest.
[00:03:30]  Environment.
[00:03:32]  The moronic.
[00:03:33]  What was the day of the Million Women March when Donald Trump was inaugurated?
[00:03:41]  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?
[00:04:06]  and you don't think that the Trump comments were of particular importance, and they were not because they were made in private.
[00:04:15]  This is a wisdom I learned.
[00:04:17]  I had more wisdom when I was in middle school.
[00:04:21]  than the vast majority of people who write for the New York Times today.
[00:04:26]  And so did all of my classmates.
[00:04:28]  It's very important that I add that.
[00:04:31]  I'm not bragging.
[00:04:32]  I'm bragging about my education.
[00:04:34]  I knew that what people said in private did not matter nearly as much as what they said in public.
[00:04:43]  It was taught to me.
[00:04:44]  I didn't figure this out by getting older.
[00:04:48]  I was taught this.
[00:04:49]  I was taught wisdom.
[00:04:51]  Because I went to a religious school.
[00:04:54]  Religious Christian schools.
[00:04:56]  Real religious ones, though.
[00:04:59]  Most Christian schools have little to do with Christianity.
[00:05:03]  Most Jewish schools have little to do with Judaism.
[00:05:07]  Because the left has taken over in so many cases.
[00:05:13]  You're married to someone who went on the Million Women March.
[00:05:18]  My heart goes out to you.
[00:05:19]  Unless you agree with her, in which case my heart doesn't go out to you.
[00:05:22]  You deserve her.
[00:05:28]  A third of all adult women suffer some sort of mental health problems.
[00:05:34]  Yeah.
[00:05:37]  You know where this isn't true, incidentally?
[00:05:39]  In Israel.
[00:05:42]  Israel, which before October 7th was...
[00:05:44]  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.
[00:05:57]  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.
[00:06:13]  The Jews of America are preoccupied with liberal ideologies.
[00:06:21]  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.
[00:06:34]  41% of women ages 18 to 25. That's a lot.
[00:06:44]  That's almost half.
[00:06:45]  Hmm.
[00:06:49]  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.
[00:07:09]  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.
[00:07:22]  It might appear a controversial take.
[00:07:25]  Too few women are getting married.
[00:07:29]  That's right.
[00:07:32]  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.
[00:07:47]  We're going to look up when The Feminine Mystique was written.
[00:07:51]  It would be fascinating to see what year that really, really pathetic book was written.
[00:08:01]  I read it recently, within the last two years.
[00:08:05]  It was morose.
[00:08:09]  I may have mentioned to you that in my late 20s, I debated Betty Friedan in Los Angeles.
[00:08:17]  Oh man, is that perfect?
[00:08:21]  She wrote it and it was published in 1963.
[00:08:24]  And in 1965, the number of women getting married peaked.
[00:08:29]  There are not many people who could say they did as much damage as Betty Friedan.
[00:08:39]  She was miserable, and like most miserable people, they want others to join them.
[00:08:45]  Because misery loves company.
[00:08:48]  Is there a study to show that?
[00:08:53]  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...
[00:09:08]  Under 55 were married in the United States in 2022. Wow.
[00:09:18]  That's astonishing.
[00:09:22]  72% in 1970. This is U.S. Census data.
[00:09:28]  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.
[00:09:53]  Yes.
[00:09:56]  How many parents would rather say, my 25-year-old daughter is married and she has a child on the way?

=== Genesis Exodus (00:21) ===

[00:10:05]  Or my 25-year-old daughter just got a PhD at Princeton?
[00:10:10]  That's the question.
[00:10:12]  That's the genesis.
[00:10:14]  What we need now is an exodus.
[00:10:17]  How's that?