The rate of dog ownership is rising ominously. How can a profusion of puppies be worrisome? Increasing numbers of women “are adopting dogs for security and/or companionship,” partly because of “the great education divide.”
And for the growing class of undereducated young men, there are increasingly bleak “employment, income and dating prospects.” What is good news for dog breeders is bad news for the culture.
I think Will's premise is a little flawed- our society is changing in a number of ways, and one of the ways is that women who are college educated are just fine with selecting partners who aren't, and vice-versa. I don't think this necessarily indicates any sort of impending widening of social inequality. In fact I think it indicates quite the opposite.