Bridget Jones generation 'to blame for breakdown of the family'
29 09 08 - 13:48 The collapse of the family is being driven by a 'Bridget Jones generation' of well-educated young women who cannot find a suitable match, a senior Conservative claimed yesterday.Shadow universities secretary David Willetts said that, for the first time, more women than men were gaining degrees - meaning many struggled to find a partner with an academic background and career prospects like their own.
With fewer men able to 'bring home the bacon', Britain was seeing 'the collapse in the economic circumstances that hold families together'.
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This confirms that women don't like to marry beneath themselves either intellectually or in terms of other capabilities such as earning a living. Women look for men they can look up to, and are more likely to be disappointed as boys are doing worse at school than in the past and girls have been achieving more.
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