this empirical observation
Yes but by choice not forced.
I doubt you're using "empirical" properly here.CMIIW but I don't think "empirical observation" is the correct term for an observation that "there seem to be many more now."
Who's being forced?
Communities that won't take kids into school if the mother has hair?
And you think that a majority of women in those communities feel forced?
Never said that, I don't have a clue.
Let me ask a crazy question. Is this so bad? What's more important, staying married or being happy? As Louis CK once said "no good marriage has ever ended in divorce."
Do you feel forced to grow a beard? Would you feel forced if you lived in a community that wouldn't accept your children if you "touched" your beard?
What's more important, staying married or being happy?
This is such a loaded question. When you grow up with certain social norms and values driven into you by everyone around you, you come to think of your actions as voluntary, but are they? It's so complex. It's like the scientologists who willingly go in the "hole." If you ask them, they will tell you they are there voluntarily, but it's all brainwashed BS.
The question is if people are being pressured into marriages they should never be in, in the first place.
I am sure teens are more than capable to make this lifelong decision. Just remember you are not allowed to drink before, during or after the decision.
Not even a l'chaim?
SO all societal values are the result of "brainwashing"?