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I would say 35-40 for first marriage.

AmericanKulak says

I would say 35-40 for first marriage.

That makes it more likely to be his only marriage.

I agree. Men should get married around 35, optimally to a woman who is 25.

Patrick says

I agree. Men should get married around 35, optimally to a woman who is 25.

Yes, the man is old enough to be established, and the woman is old enough to know that there isn't a Brad Pitt behind every tree.

https://tuttletwins.com/12rules-free/

YouTube: Mister Rogers Sings: "Everybody's Fancy" from 1968-1991

https://youtu.be/auRJSGsgOVM

“Boys are boys from the beginning
Girls are girls right from the start”

“You’re born a boy, you stay a boy!”

“When you’re born a girl baby, you grow up to be a bigger girl, and then a woman”

“Only girls can grow up to be the mommies, only boys can grow up to be the daddies.”

Facts.

Undoctored says

from the beginning

Literally from the moment of conception, and hard-wired into the nucleus of every single cell.

AmericanKulak says

I would say 35-40 for first marriage.

thats in a city, country way lower on that in 20th

https://slaynews.com/news/hollywood-stars-christian-book-reading-draws-record-crowds-after-indianapolis-public-library-refused-to-host-him/

https://nypost.com/2023/02/25/libs-of-tiktok-creator-is-publishing-a-childrens-book/

‘Libs of TikTok’ creator Chaya Raichik is publishing a children’s book

Chaya Raichik, the founder of the anti-woke social media account “Libs of TikTok,” is publishing her first kid’s book next month.

Raichik, 28, who has spent the past two years tweeting TikTok videos of liberals spouting off about gender identity and other hot-button culture war issues — amassing over 1.9 million followers in the process — says the book is her “next step.”

“I wanted to do the next step, which is to give parents and children a tool that they can use to actually be able to spot predatory behavior,” she told The Post.

Raichik’s debut picture book, “No More Secrets: The Candy Cavern,” tells the story of Rose, a second-grade lamb whose new teacher, Mr. Wooly, is more bent on giving his pupils sweets than teaching them about counting and reading.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4125661-high-school-boys-are-trending-conservative/



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Fun and engaging stories that are easy to read

This one gets some good reviews:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJPS1QCN

Fables For Young Wolves is a book for young men in a world that does not want them. It is a collection of fables and parables that explore the meaning and consequences of strength in a harsh and dangerous world.

A new post about that book:

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/fables-for-young-wolves

Contemporary children’s literature has gotten even worse under the pressure of politics, with bookshelves filling with stories about antiracist babies who grow up to become boys who become girls, and girls who save themselves from dragons and therefore don’t need help from the boys who foolishly refused to become girls. This is less moral instruction than moral inversion, literature meant to turn children against their own natures, stories that deliberately deceive developing minds in order to neuter them, soften them, make them malleable and unthreatening for a managerial culture in which the socially acceptable lie is always preferable to the uncomfortable truth.

Fables For Young Wolves is not that sort of book.

The stories in Fables For Young Wolves are true fables in the Aesopian tradition: tales in which animals are used as symbols for particular facets of human character, or for particular kinds of humans. Foxes are wily, crows are wise but conniving, pigs are greedy and vulgar, asses are stupid, sheep are conformist and dull, dogs are loyal but credulous.

"For after being brought up from childhood with these stories, and after being as it were nursed by them from babyhood, we acquire certain opinions of the several animals and think of some of them as royal animals, of others as silly, of others as witty, and others as innocent." – Apollonius, on Aesop (quoted in the foreword).

The titular wolves around whom the fables revolve are true wolves: noble, cruel, cunning, vicious enemies to their foes but faithful to a fault to their friends, playing roles of villain, victim, and hero as each tale requires. As the most psychologically complex of the animals, they stand for everything that is highest in the human soul, and so are also suited to plumb the depths. These are not Disneyfied vegan wolves that make friends with rabbits: these wolves are hunters and killers, and unashamed of it.

Thomas O. Bethlehem’s fables are intended, as all fables should be, to impart lessons about human nature and about the world, not as we might wish it to be but as it is, with the intent that the young reader will be guided away from bad decisions and towards the good. Many of the stories are anecdotes of a couple of pages, which communicate simple ideas about controlling your base impulses, having your friend’s back, knowing who your real friends are, the consequences of helping those who cannot be helped, and so on. Interspersed between these are longer and more psychologically complex tales which build upon well-known folk-tales such as the Boy Who Cried Wolf, the Three Little Pigs, the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, and Little Red Riding Hood.

The longer tales are by far the most interesting. Bethlehem subverts these stories, but in a very intriguing fashion that actually draws out their inner meanings to gripping and poignant effect. It is not a postmodern deconstruction, so much as a premodern reconstruction that brings their lessons into sharp, immediate focus. The moral of the classical Boy Who Cried Wolf, for example, is simply that if you lie too often, eventually no one will believe you; Bethlehem focuses instead on the spiritually poisonous consequences of a deepening web of lies, not only for the young shepherd himself, but for the villagers who become ever more invested in the false legend he weaves around himself. His Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing is a deeply unsettling account of the consequences of living a lie, showing how you eventually become what you pretend to be. Bethlehem’s take on the Three Little Pigs places the wolf in the role of protagonist, and asks us to imagine why the wolf would want to turn the pigs out of house and home, and what success looks like for a young wolf.



My personal favourite was his version of Little Red Riding Hood, which places the young girl and her bitter spinster aunt in the roles of the villains. Bethlehem makes this a story of a young girl who strays off the right path, which she finds too difficult and circuitous for her liking, trading her innocence and youth for the cheap excitement of secret transgressions through easy shortcuts and access to forbidden mysteries, and who ends up playing with the hearts of both wolf and hunter with disastrous consequences for everyone, herself included. This is a particularly powerful parable, warning girls against listening to bad advice from vicious old women who know just how to appeal to their worst instincts, and warning boys against the dangers of giving their hearts to the wrong kind of girl. ...

Few of us were raised to be wolves; to the contrary, our society encourages us to be pigs that we might be ruled by our appetites, sheep that we might be sheered, lambs that we might be led to the slaughter. Neither the wider culture nor the educational system have pre-emptively adjusted to the harsher conditions we see coming on the horizon: they still seek to make boys and girls grow up meek, pliable, agreeable, gullible, and defenceless. We do our children no good service by failing to prepare their spirits for the gathering storm. Fables For Young Wolves is a book that recognizes that this is a land of wolves now.