sons and daughters

i ambled through People's Park (人民公园）since i was too late for the Translocomotion exhibition in the Shanghai Art Museum. i came across the strangest phenomenon. Old men and women crowding around notices put up by other old men and women, advertising their sons and daughters for marriage.

Born Sept 1982.
1.6m
Earns 10500 RMB a month
Has own property
Pls contact 150XXXXXXXX

Has it come to this? Do people not know how to interact, fall in love and find their own lifelong partners anymore? Or are they too absorbed in their own lives that they have relegated this spouse-finding task to their parents?

i wonder who came up with this idea. did these old people, sitting around one day, lamenting their lack of grandchildren, suddenly come up with this brainchild? trust them to be thus enterprising. what will be next?