Is Mrriage Becoming a Thing of the Past?

Today, I'd like to talk about marriage.

Nowadays, many Japanese men and women do the "Konkatsu".
It became really so big popularity that TV drama made with this theme.
Konkatsu is the way people who want to marry meet someone who also want do so. It is probably a kind of arranged introductions.
It has many styles. For example, there are introductions with cooking, with drinking at bar for only the single and so on.

Why has "konkatsu" become so popular?
One of the reason is that 30~40 people doesn't have time to get a girlfriend or boyfriend in their daily life. Even though they had experiences dating when they were school studnts, the chance has being less and less.

Secondly, searching the partner through an intermediary has possibility to meet many people more than one searches through own life.

Thirdly, it's not only young people who use this.
50~60 people also use it to look for second partner after divorce.
50~60 is the age which can free from child-care and work. So, some of them decide to divorce and want to get own happiness.

I think that it is the best way to get a partner by myself, but asking a third party to help is also needed and useful.
I'd like to marry someday because I want to get respectful partner and babies. However, if I can't meet such a person by myself, I probably register in the network.