It's not Mesh' fault he hasn't found a chica yet. Give him time.

I was hoping for more than the usual sacrasm, but I suppose that was futile.

You know, I really think the RP's of the world will make up for the delay practiced by my generation.

For example:

Jeff and Kimberly Barr are pleased to announce the birth of their new baby boy, Zachary Ray. Zachery was born today (23 September 2003) at 7:09 a.m. weighing in at 7 lbs. 14 oz. and measuring 21 inches long. He has reddish blonde hair and blue eyes. Both Mom and baby are doing well and hope to be home on Thursday.

Actually, it probably is my fault.

But to engage your thoughts in earnest: I think the trend you're describing is at least in part a result of the economic prosperity our generation has enjoyed. There's a lot of talk about how this will be the first generation not to exceed its parents in material success. But here's the secret: I don't think most of us care about that statistic. We've experienced economic prosperity, enjoyed it, but we want something different and (at least in our minds) better. We want relationships that aren't settling. I think many in my group of ChattaCynics are deathly afraid of ending up in a comfortable but stale married lifestyle. And we're surrounded by media images of "true love," of people who find perfect connection between their minds and genitals. So we delay, we keep our options open in a Rob Gordon sort of way, because to make a choice means jumping onto the short path to boredom and death.

It's a privledge of having cash that we can be cynical and distanced from the institutions that have historically held our society together.

I'm sure there are more profound things to say about this, but I'm afraid to commit to saying them.

I think it is all the fault of 'Friends.'

Ok, now I'm gonna get serious. People of my generation long for authentic and solid relationships, as opposed to what many of us have seen modeled by our parents or others--inauthentic and undependable. (Yeah, I know that there are tons of people, especially in the Covenant/PCA community, that come from whole and great families. Actually, it is very encouraging to know that that sort of family exists.) We find what we're looking for in caring friendships and avoid marriage because it doesn't look like a paradisical state of being, it looks like impending doom.

Ok, maybe I am extrapolating societal principles from my experience and being the stupidest amateur sociologist ever, but add the above stuff to Mesh's comments and let's see what happens.

My simple answer:
There is no longer the sense of community because we have all become selfish. We want it all now, we want it done our way, and we all want to just do it. We as a culture have forgotten what our forefathers lived: you are part of a team, and that team is the Church of Christ, your family, your state, your community, your country, and any other group that makes up more than one person. We have become a culture that lives to violate the 1st Commandment. We worship ourselves.