Living in a primarily secular world, we are inevitably influenced by the western “hollywood” idea of love and marriage. There is a huge lack of education on the subject of marriage in the Jewish world. This leads to singles having improper expectations, and increased difficulty getting people married and staying married.

Jewish communities are growing and spreading all over the world. Technology to connect people has advanced, however little has been adapted into the shidduch system. We face a problem with information management and are putting too much reliance on shadchanim to marry everyone off.

An issue reportedly affecting North American yeshivish communities, where there are an increasing number of older single girls and not enough older single boys for them to marry. This issue is attributed to the dating pattern of  boys starting to date at age 23 and girls starting to date at age 19, creating an age gap.