A new ad put out this week by the NASI organization seems to place the “shidduch crisis,” namely the trouble girls are having in shidduchim, squarely on the shoulders of yeshiva bochurim.
“Could our sons’ plans be fueling our daughters’ shidduch challenges?” the ad headline reads.
The ad goes on to say that “Our daughters’ shidduch troubles could be starting in our sons’ dorm and dirah. Because that’s where bachurim decide as a group when to go to Eretz Yisroel and when to return. So if our sons’ friends, and their friends, don’t come home by age 22, our daughters won’t have many bachurim to go out with. Most ironic? Our funding is allowing it to happen!”
The ad then says that there’s something people can do.
“But we can do something about it,” the ad states. “Let’s speak to our sons about the effect of their decisions on their sisters. We’ll be following the guidance of Gedolel Yisroel, and
getting our daughters and her friends to pick up speed in shidduchim.”
The bottom of the ad states that Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt”l said about the father of a 30-year-old single girl, “For his sons he wasn’t in any rush to start shidduchim before 23-24. If a father doesn’t start his sons younger, he is indirectly responsible for there not being enough bachurim for his own daughter.”
{Matzav.com Israel}