I read the article and while I have nothing but respect for Mr Rechnitz, I think the "age" issue is just one symptom of a much greater illness not a cause.
As an aside, I think I am somewhat qualified to comment on this as I have been a shadchan for many years.
The issue is not due to the age gap. it is due to misplaced priorities. While there is probably a higher percentage of single girls these days then there was in the alter heim, it is mainly societies fault for stressing all the unimportant things. While I dont want to minimize the pain and suffering of many of the single people out there, much of is due to their own unrealistic expectations.
After the holocaust, people just married the first Jewish person that they could find pretty much. No one had money and people were just happy to find someone who was Jewish and alive.
Today, the focus is on all the wrong things: money, looks, age, status, etc.
As a result of this misplaced focus, many people are suffering because either they are being constantly rejected or they are rejecting people for all the wrong reasons.
Your comment makes me believe that you have a very primitive viewpoint on Shidduchim. For starters, "looks" SHOULD be a priority for a man (he should find her pretty and attractive) and also for a woman (she should find him handsome). Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but at least the beholder must think she/he is attractive! This happens to be Da'as Torah.
I can agree with you only if this is taken to an extreme, such as a guy stating that he wants a particular size, shape and hair color, something which even the secular world would laugh at.
Now, let's talk money. The reason people (or their parents) seek to marry into a wealthy family is mainly so they shouldn't struggle with Parnassah, which is basically one of the most painful and stressful struggles in life. No, it's not the most comfortable thing to live off your in-laws, but sometimes people are willing to take that over the alternative. There are those people who want to marry into wealthy families for "status", and those people are idiots, but the vast majority marries for the former, and not the latter reason.
I see it all the time. I get a fat shlubby 50 something year old who has never been married who wants to marry a girl of child bearing age.
I have one question. If you couldnt get a girl when you were 35 what on G-ds earth makes you think you will get a 35 year old now.
This is irrelevant here. This thread is discussing Shidduchim at the average Shidduch age, not people who are 50. That is a different problem altogether, and this same guy would have the same dilemma in the secular world.
People need to stop focusing on stupid details and just look for the 3 traits that the gemara says. Rachmanus, Bayshanus and Gmilas Chesed. Of course looks are nice, but they should not be to the exclusion of everything else.
Further, the reason we have so much divorce today is a result of this me first attititude.
No, you need to get out of 1872 and realize that we are in 2014. Find me a Bochur that will marry a morbidly obese girl because she is a wonderful Ba'alas Chesed, of find me a girl that will marry a guy that is wheelchair bound because he is a Baki B'shas and then we'll continue this conversation.
I don't want to judge you, but based on your comments it sounds like you will be going the way of Radio Shack and Kodak if you don't wake up soon.