Why Are So Many Men Today Against Getting Married?

Fifty three percent of African American children are living in single parent female headed households. Some are because of divorce. But a great number are because the parents never married. In order for a marriage to happen, a man has to propose marriage to a woman.  In too many families today, men have no desire to marry their "baby's mama." What has made marriage obsolete? We'll talk to young men, and even older men who prefer the single life, and find out why the institution of marriage is so unpopular among today's men? What message about marriage are young men receiving from their elders?  Are young men in college more likely to marry, or does college only confirm that the bachelor life is better? Jared Mitchel, sophomore engineering student at Morehouse College and recent recipient of the Jesse Jackson Sr. Fellows scholarship of $75,000 from the Toyota Corporation, joins us today to give a perspective on how today's up and coming young men view the possibilities of marriage