Correct and see the thing is this....it's not a complete result of "women" either.
Society has changed. In previous times, the structure of marriage made complete sense when you had a lack of women's liberation and you didn't have modern day household technology. This required a man in the field making money and a woman in the house doing work, as neither could really "survive" without the other. You also had an entire COMMUNITY CULTURE that promoted women getting married between the ages of 18 - 21 and staying married in order for survival. A woman's mother would literally kick her out of the house and shame her for getting pregnant out of wedlock.
Today is completely different.
Men and Women no longer need each other. Household technology makes it so that there's no need for a live-in spouse doing "housework" all day, both genders can have careers, we no longer have a community culture that requires women to marry young or marry at all (liberation), and on top of this......you have social media, online dating, and texting that have just taking a house fire and turned it into a BLOCK fire.
Marriage makes absolutely no sense today.
Agreed.
As a kid I saw my mother and father kill each other and I thought, "why would you do this ****e?". I saw my eldest brother get a biatch pregnant, marry her and then go through a relationship hell (they had four kids, the fifth kid ain't his but he raises it as his while killing himself working for them all....
....I saw a second brother devoted to a stuck up cow, devoting his life to her and their kids and I couldn't quite grasp it....
Each to their own but I'd rather travel.
That said, that was back in the day when people may have had something close to values.....
Today, I understand not the attraction of marriage. Like you say it's changed. Beyond recognition. A young man wanted that would need his heed examined. Perish the thought man, perish the thought.