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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Difficulty finding marriage partner

Difficulty finding marriage partner

  • Lack of marriageable partners
  • Inadequate means of finding suitable spouses

Claim

There is something pointless about being single all one's life. It is a life without validity.

Broader

Impediments to marriage
Presentable

Narrower

Shortage of marriageable men
Presentable
Shortage of marriageable women
Unpresentable

Aggravates

Celibacy
Excellent
Loneliness in single people
Presentable
Later marriages
Presentable
Increase in number of single mothers by choice
Presentable
Stay-at-home adult children
Presentable

Aggravated by

Imbalance in the human sex ratio
Presentable
Social pressure for marriage
Yet to rate
Psychological inhibition
Yet to rate
Lack of social contact
Yet to rate
Investment determined marriages
Yet to rate
Inhibiting shyness
Yet to rate
Disagreeable personal conditions
Yet to rate

Reduced by

Group marriage
Presentable
Arranged marriage
Presentable
Marriage markets
Unpresentable

Strategy

Providing sufficient marriageable partners
Yet to rate
Marrying
Yet to rate
Choosing a marriage partner
Yet to rate
Abstaining from marriage
Yet to rate

Value

Lack
Yet to rate
Difficulty
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced Inequality

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Yet to rate
 Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
J1553
DOCID
12015530
D7NID
140451
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/difficulty-finding-marriage-partner
Last update
May 19, 2022