Any seeming nostalgia for a time when dating, courtship, matchmaking, marriage, and family formation was more scripted actually masks a deep sense of regret over how indeterminate the millennial cohort seems to be on the most personal, individual level.
Today, options are so limitless that many (privileged) young people try to avoid making these decisions entirely staying in school longer, job hopping, dating around, pushing the average age of first marriageand child higher and higher.