🌊 Consequences

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Ripple effects: for women, for society, crime, and national cost.

Consequences for Women

• Logan introduces “hypergamy,” where women traditionally seek partners with higher status. With women’s advancements, fewer men meet this criterion, creating a “mating gap.”
• Emotional intelligence is now a dating currency, but men were raised to be providers, not emotionally adept, leaving them unprepared.
• Online dating amplifies this: women filter for height (e.g., 6 feet, only 14% of US men), and top-tier men engage in “Porsche polygamy,” leaving average men rejected (e.g., swiping right 1,000 times for one coffee date).
• Reeves discusses the idea that older women often experience a societal sense of being “unneeded” after menopause or divorce—drawing an unexpected parallel to men’s sense of redundancy when they feel economically or socially displaced.
• He references historical practices where postmenopausal women took on elevated roles, like deaconesses in the early church, as evidence that societies have long grappled with this question of post-reproductive purpose
• Reeves and the host briefly discuss the “grandmother hypothesis” from evolutionary psychology, which posits that older women are biologically useful even after menopause because they help raise grandchildren and pass on cultural knowledge
• 2.8 million more women with post-secondary degrees—looking for men who didn’t drop out, not enough supply.

Consequences for Society

Crime

1. Vulnerable to gangs
2. Mass shooters
3. Hitler youth
4. ISIS
5. Juvenile detention centers are filled with dad-deprived boys.
6. Every 1 percent increase in fatherlessness in a neighborhood predicts a 3 percent increase in adolescent violence. Study employed data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health; see Chris Knoester and Dana L Haynie, “Community Context, Social Integration into Family, and Youth Violence,” Journal of Marriage and Family 67, no. 3 (200): 767–80, doi:10.1111/j.17413737.200.00168.x.
7. prisons are centers fdor dad-deprived males 24 —boys who never became men.

Of Boys and Men _ Why the Modern Male Is S - Reeves, Richard copy, p.122 (file not included in this release)

A study in New York found that opening a strip club or escort agency reduced sex crime in the surrounding neighborhood by 13%.

Cost on the nation

1. Beyond homeland security, though, father-absent households also receive most of the $100 billion dollars per year spent on welfare programs. 12 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) distributes 87. percent of funds—or $1 billion—to father-absent families. Medicaid spending on father-absent families is another $23 billion. 13 Head Start and school lunch programs follow the same pattern.
2. That $100 billion spent on welfare doesn’t include the $39 billion spent annually on prisons.