Sentences with phrase «about marriageable»

We're always hearing about a lack of marriage - able men, although Isabel V. Sawhill, of the Brookings Institute, suggests it may be less about marriageable men and more about independent women who don't necessarily want or need men.

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There's been much talk about a lack of marriageable men, not only for those in lower socioeconomic groups, but also for educated professional women of any color.

We often talk about «marriageable man» as a man's ability to have a steady job and a decent income.

What determines a «marriageable man» is probably very different if she doesn't; as I've written before, no one really worries about child - free couples.

Bolick is worried about «marriageable» men, and defines those men as those «who are better educated and earn more than» women.

While Slater emphasizes that from the start, «computer dating was about more dates, not better dates,» the industry's origins also reflect how determined singles can be in trying to find stable relationships and marriageable partners in the face of marketized relations and hegemonic consumerism.

A few other Westerns featuring female protagonists that almost made the cut are: the Coens» «True Grit» although we just didn't really feel like Hailee Steinfeld, good as she is, actually leads the movie; Samuel Fuller «s «Forty Guns» which also stars Western superheroine Barbara Stanwyck; 1995 TV movie «Buffalo Girls» in which Anjelica Huston plays Calamity Jane; William Wellman's «Westward the Women» in which a wagon train of «marriageable» females is brought out to supply a woman - starved town in the West; and straight to video title «The Desperate Trail,» just because this is a list about strong women leads and they don't get much stronger than Linda Fiorentino (alongside Sam Elliott).

If we're serious about getting more people to tie the knot, we'll also tackle prison reform (to help make more men «marriageable»), wage supports (ditto), and tax reform (to remove marriage penalties).

Making more men marriageable is one of the goals of the Institute for American Values and the National Marriage Project, though apprenticeships and helping those in the military and in jail (hmm, I'd have to think long and hard about marrying someone who'd been in jail — wouldn't you?).

Your Tango suggests men won't consider a woman marriage material if she doesn't have confidence and if she creates too much drama; Ask Men indicates being sexually compatible and on the same page about money; eHarmony says a marriageable man must have respect and be honest; a New York Times Room for Debate offers various viewpoints, but notes that without good - paying jobs many men — regardless of their ability to be honest and respectful ways — are not marriage material.

Although there is much chatter about an alleged shortage of marriageable males as a barrier to marriage, in reality, nearly half of unmarried mothers are living with the child's father at the time a child is born; another 23 percent are in a stable romantic relationship with the father.