As someone who found her spouse on a dating app, personally knows at least three other married couples who met on dating apps, and is fairly sure I wouldn’t have met an acceptable partner without the use of that technology, I really don’t think one of the problems is more choice in partners. It’s definitely short-term thinking and related values.

Dating sites, by allowing me to find out quickly who had those incompatible values and weed them out before wasting time on them, while connecting me with a compatible person I never would have met otherwise, directly led to my marriage and child.

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I think it's more the "hook-up culture" that's become encouraged by crappy dating apps and social media vs looking to find a spouse via a dating app. Have a friend who found his lady on one, they're very happy and he bought a ring not long ago.

Dating apps can enable hook-up culture and they can enable dating to find a spouse. They’re just tools. Some are better at one or the other, but they don’t change people’s values in themselves. They enable the values people have to be expressed.

Exactly. As with other things in life, you get out of it what you put in to it.

Your family is absolutely lovely! πŸ₯°