Good. It's good to see these views fade away.

The second sentence in your URL: "Millions more have dads who are physically present, but emotionally absent."

A lifelong contract to stay together as a "couple" even when their lives are drifting apart is no guarantee for happy childhoods.

Also the absence of the biological father doesn't mean that the children only have one parent / parental figure.

I did know the internet reached far and wide but I did not know it reached back in time.

So how's having the internet in the 19th century feels? Cause based on your conservative beliefs it's at best the 19th century when you are typing that message.

I don't even know where to begin so I'll just cut to the main point and let you know that fertility rates and marriage have nothing to do with each other. As an example I'll quote Japan where the marriage institution is deeply rooted in social life, yet their fertility rate is plummeting worse than the relevancy of your statement.

"What does this mean?"

it means that your choices matter 

it means that if you fear being attacked you can choose to be passive and take no precautions

or alternatively you can choose as the women of india to take precautions such as equipping yourself with a firearm to shoot any attackers dead

"Where are the feminists that were asking this to happen?  

Sure, you can certainly find instances of people supporting this, but you can also find feminists who are opposed to it."

the ban was put into place because feminists argued that this objectified women

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/formula-1-one-grid-girls-boxing-sexism-sport-me-too-tennis-a8190686.html

"Boxing has not followed darts and banned the bimbo, but it can’t be long. Until recently, glamorous women were tasked with walking alongside the male darts players onto the stage. It’s unfortunate that people are losing work, but I’m not sorry sporting bodies are finally realising that using women in demeaning roles sends out the wrong message."

the truly ironic thing here is that the woman who writes this claims to be advocating for women's empowerment... but then resorts to calling women who make choices she disagrees with as "the bimbo"... what the fuck

https://thedebrief.co.uk/news/opinion/formula-one-grid-girls-sexism-objectification/

"Broadly speaking, you can’t ignore the inherent sexism that surrounds these roles. Employing women solely in a decorative fashion, to adorn and praise successful men is nothing other than problematic. As with anything, context is key. The problem here is not women's bodies, nudity or sexuality. It is the monopolization of those things by men in a male-dominated sphere."

"I'm not in favor of banning grid girls, because I'm a feminist.  "

let me ask you a very relevant question here, do you believe that women should be treated the same as men?

"This is because even a lot of legitimate rape victims blame themselves.  You don't see that kind of blame in other crimes. "

you can say that but its not true

if a car is left unlocked and its stolen or a home then the owner is blamed to some extent for their choices

"When it comes to rape, historically it's often never been the fault of the man.  "Boys will be boys.""

not that i even believe this to be the case(women despite feminist nonsense were treated in many ways better than men, for example, men being expected to fight and die to protect women and children) but again i'm talking about present day 2018

are you really saying that if a man is caught raping a woman that our society just pats him on the back and says "boys will be boys"?

"No amount of precautions would eliminate every rape. "

which is the case with every crime... life unfortunately is not fair, which is why you encourage people to be active and take on as much responsibility as they can even though ultimately something bad may happen to them

at least if they are taking precautions then the likelihood that something bad will happen fall much lower

"I don't see this claim anywhere in the article.  "

"Employing women solely in a decorative fashion, to adorn and praise successful men is nothing other than problematic. "

" But any job that is awarded simply on looks and that doesn’t really require much skill apart from evading gropers and permanently smiling, seems pretty degrading. "

i mean... that's what the whole articles were about... that's what the whole issue is about... women holding these positions is supposedly objectification so their freedom to choose the positions must be taken away

"In general yes."

but the thing you're not getting is that people use the idea that men and women should be treated equally as justification for taking away women's rights in circumstances where there is inequality in the way men and women are presented

which is just plain stupid because men and women are different in many ways which invariably leads to different types of representation in different areas

the problem with current day feminism is that the underlying idea of equality has shifted from being about rights to being about outcomes, which ironically can only end up hurting women

and yes i agree with you that women and men should be free to pursue whatever they want... but this will consequently result in different outcomes which conflicts with the idea of equality of outcomes 

Crap, people are getting children outside of marriage now? What will become of us!? #WeAreDoomed

My brother and I were not born out of wedlock, that didn't prevent our father from being absent for most of our life.

Lol. You talk about the internet and yet you fail to use it for 3 seconds for googling the marriage rate in Japan:

https://theweek.com/articles/453219/everything-need-know-about-japans-population-crisis

That's just a very quick find from 2014. This marriage probleem in Japan has been known for years and there should many similar articles.

A small quote from the article:

"But most Japanese young people do have friends and relationships — they're just not settling down. The marriage rate has plummeted, and with it the birthrate, since out-of-wedlock births are rare in Japan. In 1975, just 21 percent of women and 49 percent of men under 30 had never been married; by 2005, the figures were 60 percent of women and 72 percent of men."

Like i said before: "When the chief pair bonding mechanism fails, the bonding fails also."

A society which is below replacement rate is slowly dying.

There is a difference between marriage and single parenting. You are comparing 2 very different things. Here in Quebec, for example, people are increasingly considering marriage to be a waste of time. In the younger generations, there are now more people that classify as "conjoints de fait", then married individuals (the former being a term used by the Quebec government to describe people who have lived together for over a year without marrying.) 

These relationships are fully intended to be permanent.

So, in essence, it's just a matter of nomenclature. Families are still a thing, they're just not marrying. I don't see how that's a problem.

I'd imagine it to be similar elsewhere

Except that was not your point, your point was that being born out of wedlock is what caused fertility dropping down, which is so dumb a point to make that you are slightly changing your rhetoric now with something so obvious that it's really pointless to point it out cause obviously if the replacement rate is below the death rate then the overall result is a shrinking amount of the population.

Also about Japan, just cause the new generations of youth rebelled against the traditions does not mean the entire population of Japan does not marry anymore, yet the ENTIRE population of Japan is in danger of plummeting, for many different reasons, social, economic and cultural. Still that has NOTHING to do with marriage. Marriage is dying and I say let it die.

Perhaps you need to stay in your 19th century and pray for our souls or whatever you people used to do back then.