“It’s a moral panic but perhaps one that’s wholly justified. In recent weeks, more data has emerged on how young people are struggling to find love and don’t know where to find it in the first place. Over two-thirds of young adults have either not dated at all or only gone on a few dates in the last year. One of the main reasons? They lack confidence and don’t know how to approach the opposite sex …., America is in a “dating recession” .… If trends continue, one-third of young adults will not get married and one-fourth won’t have kids …. We want what the people around us want. If the people around you are oriented toward marriage, then you absorb that orientation almost without thinking. You date because dating is what people do. You commit because commitment is what’s expected …. The pool of eligible partners is bigger in college and your early 20s. After that, it shrinks — and the culture of dating only gets harder to navigate. Drifting through your 20s without a thought for your family future …. is its own kind of loss.” Difficult Dating Today, Why? Washington Post (March 15th, 2026).