Men refuse marriage, women lie to save face.
Read any article written by the average woman in the media -- or a neutered mangina -- and one will be fooled into thinking that the reason marriages are on the decline is because "women are choosing not to get married" or some other such tripe that ineffectively attempts to hide the truth of the matter.
The actual reason for the decline of marriages -- which is well-documented -- is not because "women don't want to get married" (a bitter anthem recited in retaliation to men's rejection of marriage.) but due to "The Marriage Strike."
According to the article: "A 'marriage strike' is the social phenomenon of men seeking to avoid marriage. The 'marriage strike' specifically refers to the action of men living within the Western world.
Advocates of the marriage strike believe that after a considered cost-benefit analysis, the legal contract that is modern marriage no longer represents an attractive option for men living in the West's changed legal, economic, sociological, cultural and demographic environment. Advocates of the marriage strike believe that marriage is unfair and consequently men are avoiding marriage. They hold that through the combination of laws permitting no-fault divorce and prevailing conditions in divorce courts that are substantially more likely to favor the wife over the husband in disputes over child custody, visitation rights, ownership of the family residence and other shared property, child support, and alimony. It is possible for a woman to divorce her husband unilaterally while simultaneously depriving him of the right to see his offspring and financially crippling him. They argue that since the divorce rate is high, and since women are more likely than men to seek no-fault divorce, scenarios like the above are a likely outcome of marriage, and that many men, fearing such an outcome, choose not to marry."
So once again we see that the pro-female claims -- made by women -- to the tune of "women don't want to get married" given as the reason for the decline in marriages is like so many other statements written by angry women today; nothing but hot air.